actually there. was a fellow there and. among stories that shapes the week a u.n. expert on. the way julian assange has been treated in recent years amounts to psychological torture. a day after failed to appear in court q 2. percent stupid looking for a person who has been exposed to psychological torture over a long period of time. from impeachment to case closed all sides get something from

special counsel robert morris final say on the trunk for pollution. and redrawing the map the elections anti establishment parties making major gains as europeans crave a shake up of the policy. good evening and welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. on friday are you an expert on torture claimed the way julian assange has been treated amounts to psychological torture adding that he doesn't think the wiki leaks co-founder will get a fair trial if extradited to the united states. this is. a risk to medical experts specialized. and. sometimes all physical and psychological treatment. mistral sanctions all the symptoms that are

typical for a person that has been exposed to psychological torture over a prolonged period of time we're speaking of severe stress and chronic you society at severe psychological trauma what i have never seen is several democratic states going up in order to persecute them is an isolated single out particular individual without granting him the protection that actually is accorded to him battle. britain was quick to hit back with the country's foreign secretary branding the experts assessments wrong and inflammatory as well as saying assad's shad always been free to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london. the controversy came just a day after assad's use extradition hearing was postponed as ill health meant the wiki leaks co-founder failed to appear in court with the details his artie's polly boy. do the sounds was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pass via

video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the hospital wing old belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of $53.00 eccentric specific details and he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to a whole range inside about the face of his health what we know is that there was a push from the the medical board of. the fact that they did this and that may put him on the world speaks speaks plenty and that's how you know being in a higher security max a maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before but without medical treatment without possible to medical treatment attorneys call him in other words states that most people might think this was going to be the 2nd hearing about this on just the extradition it will have to be a fairly procedural affair well there wasn't any major arguments from

a scientific team or the prosecution the official start of it has been moved to the 12th of june essentially the question of what's meant to be all cute and boils down to 2 fundamental things it is take to get us on to act as a journalist when he published those slow news that secret u.s. materials and information and crucially for him is the u.k. going to allow him to be handed over to the u.s. so far as he is where he could face up to hundreds and 75 years behind bars that will turn. 17 counts on the espionage act and one commentator just about richard in his face it comes in 75 years in prison which is outrageous the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted for the publishing the truth and face of a lifetime and in a prison in another country is. this espionage act has never before been

used against a journalist only against government officials who leaked secrets in the past of course washington's argument is that isn't a journalist that he's actually has his publications put the lives of informants by the u.s. . allies around the world in grave danger although what's interesting here is that with the charges unveiled against. a lot of people even his critics of which there have been many many press freedom organizations and just journalists and whistleblowers around the world say that what is with this exhibition case could have serious implications for the press in france and around the world which is why. so much attention. to all of songs is switching for a 3rd extradition hearing should drop for the 12th of june reports are appearing the u.s. justice department has decided to drop some of its charges against the whistleblower those apparently exposing the cia secret spying tools.

u.s. special counsel robert mueller has handed in his resignation 2 years after he opened his probe into alleged collusion between donald trump and russian speaking to the public for the 1st time since the investigation he sought to clarify the major findings of the report. explains both camps in washington interpret in his words in their own words. robert muller is all done the special counsel's office is closing and he's going to retire and to celebrate 35000000 dollars and 2 years worth of work he decided to address the media there's an old psychological test they call the war shack and basically it's a set of ambiguous ink blots it's up to the mind of the patient to determine what to see and the 10 minute presentation of robert muller seems a very much be in the eyes of the beholder if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make

a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime it's not that different from what he said at the end of his report but the democrats certainly took a lot from the statement of the mother was essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress. statement makes it clear congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately miller statement makes clear with those who have read his report no it's an impeachment referral and it's up to congress to act they shewed given the special counsel was unable to pursue criminal charges against the president if the congress threw stones of the crimes and other wrongdoing of president trump and we will do so i think it was very clear if you could clear the president he would have but he couldn't makes clear well muller said the report speaks for itself a special counsel found no collusion by any americans in ira's illegal activities now trump or the opposite from robert mueller he says he's in the clear nothing

changes from the miller reports there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you then the white house press secretary clarified with a statement there was no real news and there he reiterated the points that he'd already made in the report. we agree with them there was no collusion there was no conspiracy and we consider this case closed he completed his investigation now he's closed his office and it's time for everybody to move on the report has been published the investigation is long over but the saga continues both sides are sticking to what they said all along so you have to ask yourself if everyone was just going to keep saying what they've said the entire time impeach trump or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with. our new york. t.v. host and political commentator staples bird told us that the democratic leadership understands that it won't be able to trump and pitched nancy pelosi knows that it's

politically and unpopular and she would be the 1st to go it sure in the senate he knows that even if the house impeach is donald trump then it goes to the senate and they have to convict him and they need 2 thirds of the senate to convict him and schumer knows that's never going to happen it didn't happen with bill clinton when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi is been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you want it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i

think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. europeans have taken to the polls in what's considered the most fiercely contested e.u. parliamentary elections 4 years since or anti establishment parties winning big longer established centrist parties last group reflecting the apparent opportunity for change voter turnout was the highest for 20 years above 50 percent. the election so green and liberal parties making significant gains what movements came out on top in countries like italy france belgium right wing populist groups now holds around a quarter of the seats in the parliament these are to show do explains why the

results might be surprising there was no shortage of political drama in the run up over 4 months pundits have been predicting a rise in anti establishment parties ahead of the e.u. elections afterwards they were right but across the bloc in the weeks leading up to the vote panic was setting in. take martin days before france headed to the polls the e.u.'s top court ordered her to pay back 300000 euros to the european parliament this followed a case in which the national rally had been accused of paying an aide incorrectly but the timing felt off it was almost as if it was a way to tell voters that her party just couldn't be trusted that came hot on the heels of accusations that former trump strategist steve bannon was actually the one pulling all the pens strings yet the public didn't seem to care and the national

rally still talked the polls here in france other scandals that were rife in the media included one russians well at least the alleged russians. it was of course if. the party which was in coalition. people's party found itself under the spotlight not for its potentially dubious policies but for a good old cash influence gambit. revici's . he says there was even an attempt to drag le pen's name into the thick gate as it became known a few months ago marine le pen was singing the praises of austrian vice chancellor

heinz christian straka saying how formidable he was struck as being forced to resign we find out why he was trying to sell his services to foreign forces behind this nationalist movement is a submission to foreign forces despite this the f p o still managed to pick up just over 17 percent of the vote in austria. there was also of course the elections very own 2 moment one swedish democrats candidate accused the other of sexual harassment and even though this scandal washed away it didn't hamper the anti immigration party's performance they increased their share of the vote to more than 15 percent. and despite merkel not calling it out warning the populist parties wanted to destroy europe we are haring to deal with populist movements that in many areas are

contemptuous of our values and want to destroy the europe of the values we represent we have to stand up to this these parties significantly increase their representation in many parts of the e.u. sex money the long arm of washington reaching for controlling europe nothing seemed to put voters off seeking something new what is clear from the results of these elections is that the old guard could no longer count on the masses to support them in blind faith what europeans want is something different it seems but godless what that is what i think why you're skeptics because of the migrants people are skeptical because they do not know what it's going to get them they are afraid of migrants or. the reason is the decline in the number of elites compared to the rest of the people as well as the quality of the democratic representation spouse because. i think it is because of immigration all europeans who are afraid of tea

many migrants coming i think this is the primary cause of the spurt. in part. parties had a disastrous defeat in my opinion it was high time for it and now we'll see whether the european results can influence our national politics all be implemented here. i think that brings the debate in england has made many people here in germany think about it this discussion has turned many citizens against the u. . i think people feel as if the existing political parties aren't given what he wants and therefore they're hunting around for something else i think to some extent is probably a protest just trying to engineer a tory vote to go more with. it wasn't unexpected as an outcome i would say kind of the level of division i would have expected across the country israel lashed out at syria on saturday night in response to what it claims was a missile attack will be taking

a closer look at that story after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow can only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. china is not a partner number one for us yet. and countries our trade partners number one with us and. i cannot share the. those who are those who say that it's a turn of russia he's. no russia i hope will never turn eastwards.

you know russian egoless is looking to both sides west towards the nice towards. welcome back let's turn to some of today's news stories now scuffles have broken out between palestinian worshippers and israeli security forces this is in east jerusalem of the soldiers and to the holy sites of the mosque during ramadan. of i was. i i. i was.

i. i i. put it shows worship was fleeing after israeli forces had raided the compound the violence came amid calls by jewish groups to converge on the site to mark jerusalem day a national holiday or israelis mark the end of the arab israeli war security measures have been heightened as thousands of israelis are expected to march through jerusalem including the muslim quarter of the old city to commemorate the anniversary. the israeli army targeted a syrian territory on saturday night killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7 says it was responding to 2 missiles fired from syria as more. well this way defense forces the i.d.f. has confirmed that it hit a number of targets in syria overnight saturday and it says that this was in retaliation to 2 missiles that were fired from syria at the israeli part of the

golan heights there were no reports of injuries or damage on the israeli side but we are hearing from the israeli cabinet that it was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who posts in the ordered these retaliate tree strikes now it comes as the israeli army issues a statement in which it says its planes and helicopters hit 2 artillery batteries and a defense battery and also a number of observation points along the israel syria border syrian state media is reporting it that 3 syrian soldiers were killed and an additional 7 injured this happening in the eastern part of the connector country side all of this is happening as tensions between israel and syria escalate particularly in the area of the golan heights now earlier in the week jared krishna who is the son in law and also the senior advisor to the american president donald trump was in jerusalem where he gifted netanyahu with a map that had been personally signed by the american president and they clearly

showed the golan heights as part of israeli territory netanyahu held a press conference in which he acknowledged and thanked the american president. brought me something from the u.s. presidents in the state department there was an official map of the states which had not been updated since the sixty's well now it's been up to. krishna brought me the new map which includes the golan heights is part of israel it's signed by president trump who writes marks so i would like to say that's very nice. and now this follows trumps a full recognition of israeli sovereignty over the golan heights back in march that happened during a meeting between the 2 leaders when netanyahu was at the white house in washington this has. been denounced by the international community who consider the area occupied territories and that is the status they have accorded it ever since israel took over the golan heights back in the 1967 war at the same time we are hearing

from the syrian side they say that the aerial defense systems were activated to strike at so-called enemy targets in the southern damascus countryside so certainly the situation between the 2 sides remains tense and both sides on a state of high alert who discussed the overnight hostilities with middle east expert at a risk on political analyst mitchell barak i think that what happened the order up and there is that there was which will last from the syrians is where i quickly went to respond that i believe the syrian army is trying to give a clear message about recognizing there is over the old rights this or that issue has for them to give a clear message that they're all as is a syrian if they were boy and if we don't recognize any decisions or imports from anyone else there's no real threat that syria will pose when it comes to borders at

this point because israel has annex that that territory many of those people are citizens in israel and every israeli almost every israeli believes that the golan heights are part of israel belong to israel and protect israel the prime minister of israel has you know a lot of backing from both sides of the aisle from both left and right on how he handles israel's security and how he defends the state of israel and people of israel. so exposed liverpool are today celebrating the 6th on that they've lifted the champions league trophy after they defeated spurs in last night's final and literate. thank god was .

to it. was. i will here not a former man united manager just a marine who's been covering the ups and downs of the championship in his show on the touchline in the last episode of the season sums up the results you can watch it in full on monday why wait though here's a quick preview of. what is the most important thing in football easter weekend on the liverpool want. a bit confusing tension to knowing the engine the arm close to your body. in a position that is not a natural physician like you happen and of course the human being needs the arms to

keep the balance i think he was nervous because he's not the super penalty taker seemed he made the right decision the quality of the game was not good the quality of passing was not good we didn't play like we should like we normally do i didn't play normally like i do i didn't sing that normally i do i think that must be a very bad very bad feeling of course it even had on his mind we are going to be losing one you love to 50 seconds and probably was thinking. even game game in the control if king doesn't play and the result is the same everyone will be saying crane has to pay even with one leg we i'm sorry the world we managers we the bentleys the football in my entire team

my best friends the ones that were closer to me are the ones that were not starting players. the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my dancing on ice in moscow. every word golden thanks for staying with i'll be back with updates for now. if you get. there in person.

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