how can we help citizens become healthier and happier moscow for a full of the 7th of july as our european business program interactive exhibition open health congress know the festival details don't i'm also been forum dot com 16 plus. this hour's headlines stories a glimpse into wiki leaks founder julian assange has life in a high security prison in london our video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage. of the international monetary fund admits mistakes were made when trying to resuscitate argentina's economy saying it feel to tackle the country's key. troubles are he goes deep into the decades of errors made by the i.m.f.

. and the new york times backtracks on its reporting of the script poisoning case in the u.k. for almost 2 months the paper failed to correct an article of a disturbing picture showing to president trump supposedly capturing the aftermath of the nerve agent. 247 news live from the russian capital this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to our top story. artie's video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage of whistleblower julian us in london's belmarsh prison the video shows the wiki leaks founder chatting with fellow inmates in the high security facility where he's serving a 50 week sentence for skipping bill it's the 1st time images of us have appeared since his arrest on removal from the ecuadorian embassy in london some 2 months ago

concerns have been mounting over his health in recent weeks after he feels to appear before courts at the end of may via video link for a hearing on possible extradition to the us the un special rapporteur on torture has condemned the son just treatment through the years saying the publisher has been abused persecuted and the u.s. military has been speaking to r.t. america the full interview airs there later this hour. what we have seen now during my visit was already alarming and what we have seen since then is the state of health dramatically the theory aerated predicted by a psychiatrist the company my visit what would can happen obviously in a prolongation of this is it will have a reversible damage 1st on the on the psychological emotional level but then also on the physical level it can lead to nervous breakdowns or even actually then to

cardiovascular. damage that is no longer reversible well the situation as it stands now julian assange is awaiting his next extradition hearing which is scheduled for whedon's the coming he is wanted by washington on charges of soliciting and publishing classified u.s. government information if extradited he could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years here needles melzer again. it is very important here that we speak about the risks that he would be exposed to in case of extradition to the us personally i'm convinced there is no chance he would get a fair trial in the united states for trial certainly generally requires a presumption of innocence now i don't have to explain to you what is the public opinion about the jewel in our stance in the us after almost a decade of under

a strain i would say public more being you know intimidation calls for his assassination and including by serving officials and former officials it's very difficult for him to get a unbiased impartial court hearing the fair trial also requires the gallery that he's actually being charged for something that is punishable now if you look at the 17 of the charges are under the espionage act and all of them relates to activities that any investigative journalist would conduct would be protected under i believe it's the 1st amendment of the us constitution under the freedom of press and freedom of expression. the new york times has acknowledged it misreported on the square pole poisoning story last year involving a former russian spy and his daughter indignant 2 months ago the newspaper wrote that cia director gina hospital president images of dead ducks and ill

children allegedly from the scene of the attack but the british authorities denied the fallout how defective b. alamo or children killer market looks now and why it took the new york times so long to issue a correction. you're remember when the new york times dropped a bombshell about how gina haskell the cia director had convinced donald trump to send russian diplomats packing in response to this creep all poisoning by showing him photographs of dead ducks and sick children except those reports turned out to be fake news the author has apologized i regret the error and over my apology i strive to get information right the 1st time that is was subscribers pay for but when i give something bone fix it so this is how they fixed it an earlier version of this article in correctly described the photos that you know house bill showed to president trump during a discussion about responding to the nerve agent attack in britain on

a former russian intelligence officer miss haskell displayed pictures illustrating the consequences of nerve agent attacks not images specific to the chemical attack in britain let's break this down a little bit more so gina haskell the cia director shows donald trump images of the impact of nerve agents here is what the original article said ms haskell showed pictures of the british government had supplied her of young children hospitalized after being sickened by the nova choked nerve agent that poisoned the script poles she then showed a photograph of ducks that british officials said were inadvertently killed by the sloppy work of the russian operatives so donald trump sees these images of sick kids and dead ducks and he is furious with russia now back then that made sense after all u.k. media was reporting that 3 children had gone to the hospital after receiving bread from the scree palls and feeding it to ducks however this story fell apart the next day the children were fine they were not affected in any way and furthermore no

ducks were harmed either there were no other casualties other than those previously stated no wildlife were impacted by the incident and no children were exposed to or became ill as a result of the incident so. exactly did the cia director showed trump she showed donald trump images of horror that had nothing to do with the incident at hand but here's another question why did it take so long to correct this correction was delayed because of the time needed for research the correction wasn't published for 2 entire months afterwards the initial article cited people briefed on the conversation whereas the new correction cited a person familiar with the intelligence time well spent caleb r.t. new york yeah i just want to show you how the russian embassy in washington responded to the new york times correction it criticized the length of time it took for the mistake to be addressed and said a real correction would be a return to normal relations between russia and the us. the

international monetary fund has admitted it made mistakes in argentina munching director christine legarde claims they underestimated the country's complicated economic situation after giving full control of miniseries fiscal policies forcing the public to bear the brunt of severe austerity no the i.m.f. is an organization with 189 member countries aimed at promoting cooperation on facilitating international trade but its track record of revitalizing national economies not only argentina doesn't have too many success stories as our senior correspondent iraq as the if explain its. you've got to understand we're just people and people make mistakes you meet we might oversleep and be late to work likewise the i.m.f. just people but when these schools up there is tens of billions of dollars on the

line it was an incredibly complicated economic situation that many actors including us underestimated a bit when we started trying to help and put together together with the argentine authorities a program to deal with the most critical sectors of the economy put yourself in the i.m.f. shoes you are the absolute last resort of any country and those a company of begging for help they're like addicts take argentina a 3rd of the population lives below the poverty line g.d.p. and free fall down 6 percent last year joblessness hopelessness in the shadow of economic chaos but there's light at the end of the tunnel the i.m.f. shining with $50000000000.00 in loans with strings attached austerity to the bone budget cuts tax and terrified the usual stuff that makes miserable

generations. this strike and to reject it tears hard for public services transportation and above all to confront the just man policy of mary symmetry of the governess and the service of the program for international monetary fund that i'm going to make it easy for most recent mockery of old the next government because they still want to have a relationship with that we are willing to fight argentina is an old hand at this making the same painful mistakes in 2001 they took an i.m.f. loan jaring an economic crisis as usual mistakes were made and the i.m.f. are just people then the crisis got a teeny bit worse. q nationwide riots the government collapsing and debt being defaulted on. and the i.m.f. a good people they had no problem admitting that everyone alex messed up even worse

than they did it would have been an ugly crisis anyway perhaps not quite as bad if the fund has supported a change in strategy earlier it isn't that mistakes are only made with tina the i.m.f. makes mistakes with everybody greece for example the economy wasn't restored jobs weren't created and the quote notable failure is the bull made made everything worse and like argentina the greeks were also choked with masochistic levels of a stereotype. in south korea i.m.f. loans and fine print conditions ended up only increasing unemployment you know that people say that you should try everything once well i.m.f. loans really don't belong in that category.

believe you they did everything the i.m.f. told them to privatized water utilities and e.g. transport industry the need for everything to start going bankrupt and collapsing left and right and only when they chose to ignore all of the i.m.f. said vice the group coverage begin years of suffering for nothing. mistakes. we used to bow before but now would country with dignity konami pose it had to be decided by the before but now we can make our own plan we had to ask the u.s. ambassador who had to go poses but now the politics in our country is more democratic you see there's confusion misunderstanding about the point of i.m.f. loans few things if any actually improve mistakes are made liberally the i.m.f.

are just people as i mentioned the real great thing about i.m.f. loans the amazing thing that nothing else in life can replace is the moment you pay them off internationally for a terribly and fundamentally free now that's a feeling that money can't buy. and that the world bank institutions like that make these sorts of mistakes and i put that in quotation marks surely often. most of the time when you look more closely you will understand that the mistake really wasn't a mistake so much as it was a desire to see this situation in such a way that the i.m.f. could participate and help the government that supports the i.m.f. is really a kind of international economic appendage of the u.s.

and its allies that control the i.m.f. and i believe the the u.s. . was behind a lot of this. changing of the guard here with the right right wing the ministrations in argentina the nerve brazil ecuador and places like that so it's part of u.s. policy political quasi we're seeing the consequences of that good is also part of the u.s. dollar policy interest rate policy and now the global economy and therefore us of the trade problems. let's turn attention to france or yellow vest protesters are conducting their 30th consecutive weekend of government protests in part us with demonstrations and they've been held across the country this saturday now police have been using tear gas to disperse the crowds were on grits right marching and it should be pointed out last weekend turnout was at its lowest since the movement

started in november last year the french interior ministry said around $1500.00 marks through chorus and the 1st that the protests were triggered by a rise in fuel tax and have since turned into a nationwide county government demonstration and we will be keeping an eye on events there nightfall to say. mexico has agreed to take what it's called unprecedented measures to stem the flow of migrants heading to the united states in exchange washington will screw up the tar of state was planning to impose an imports on mexican goods president trump took to twitter on friday night to laud the agreement. mexico will try very hard and if they do that this will be a very successful agreement for both the united states and mexico terry scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended mexico in turn has

agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border. of the u.s. 1st threatened to impose a 5 percent import tax in all mexican going to last week they were due to come into effect this coming monday mr trump war not the rate would then increase month by month until reach 25 percent the prospect of sweeping tariffs led almost immediately to the mexican authorities to adopt top per border controls on thursday alone we know the thousands of migrants from central america were stopped just a few miles into mexican territory despite the sudden policy shift though mexico's president and the rest manuel lopez obrador a previously struck a very different and including on the campaign trail. close the northern neighbors the united states government would want us to do the dirty work by blocking migrants from central america who are to live for those most want to have

a relationship i read to rate it a friendship with the people and with the government of the united states this is our position the u.s. authorities president trump have all behaved very well because they have not closed dialogue. well in addition to agreeing to restrict migration northward donald trump say mexico has also agreed to buy more american agriculture products the deal will likely be seen as an attempt by the president to galvanize his support base and fulfill campaign promises. was actually goes to the page was. well quite a loop career carrboro an expert on governments and policy told to spear threats of import tax hikes was a piece of political future by the white house this is electoral times i mean from here to the election when you have less than one you don't have we're going to have this type of spectacles i would say. it was not credible that the president of the

united states would impose tariffs on mexico it was very important that mexico in the end was pressured to negotiate a deal with the united states that was there in federal with a threat that was not credible mexico already already fall into the same trap and they are going to continue falling she's going to be using that continuously to do whatever she wants to do when she's going to go down in the polls he's going to play the game again mexico has to put the line right away they don't want to be at the political opinions of of of a president that seeking reelection yeah development we'll be watching very closely here in our 2 you know a petition has been launched to free a russian journalist arrested on drug charges in schools or 2 reports in moments.

seen this before in the eighty's with the rise of japan and the u.s. tatar response rejiggered the global currency markets at the plaza accord this is. the same people like a master plan for to action team after the crash of $1000.00. so china doesn't seem to be wanting to play that game so they're going to have to come up with some other strategy and after a moment appear on the rise. greece has long positioned itself as a sovereign player within the e.u. it can stand up to brussels put its foot down when it comes to its own national interests but when it comes to dealing with the trumpet ministration is the government just as ready to put hungary 1st.

a russian investigative journalist for the online news website meant to say i was being charged in moscow with drugs position and then 10 to supply but a loon off this case taken a twist on a petition has been launched for. it's difficult it feels like a movie i never thought that i'd be at my own funeral thank you very much to all of you. the rest of medusa correspondent yvonne golan over was released from hospital where he underwent multiple medical examinations doctors say he suffered no serious trauma going over was detained on thursday after officers said they found drugs in

his possession as well as scales and more drugs in his moscow apartment he was then charged with attempting to sell them around the same time as he was sent to hospital but he claims he was beaten in custody and refused a lawyer which the police reject in both cases now convinced of his innocence is the online newspaper that cullen of works for they were posted his lawyers statements suggesting that the drugs were planted on him and also mentioning that he received many threats throughout his journalistic career for his work however the police claim his arrest was not random he but connected to a wider investigation into a drug ring in moscow nevertheless an open petition has circulated throughout the internet calling for gold in those immediate release over 55000 people have signed it including high profile journalists and russian media so many people are still waiting to see with bated breath what will happen next. all right switching gears the labor minister has said it's socially acceptable for women to be told to wear

high heels in the workplace on professional grounds after a petition against gender based discrimination was filed raising the age old debate to wear or not to wear. just for. to feel this complete change the social loom so it's not seen as a bad man whose aim is to win women's shoes like mad.

because we don't have to wait heeled shoes. to the socialists up to the something that falls within the realm of the occupation when necessary to grow brood. a pretty related theme one of the year's biggest tennis tournaments the french open has been caught up in a sexism storm. organizers said forecasts of bad weather meant they played both women semifinal tenuously and away from center court the women's tennis association blasted the move saying quote they deserved to play on the press they just sent records like the man. has been taking a look at the wedge between that is driven gender sport and sponsorship. the semifinal matches in the women's french open in tennis have been held away from same to court and at the same time now the organizers to frame

a position they say that this allows for the maximum number of spectators to watch these equally prestigious games that some see it as the latest example in an industry that denounces female athletes what is tiring and what is really unfortunate in this more than anything is that women have to sit you know athletes female athletes they have to sit in different positions and have to justify their scheduling and their involvement in an event or their salary or their approach to need to use the accusations of sexist tendencies in school the comment is the most glaring lack of equal pay some say there's a logic behind the disparity in what the athletes it's a comparison we shouldn't even make female models earn more than male models and nobody says anything why because they have a larger following internists to whoever gathers a larger audience earns more it's not a particularly politically correct comment to make but it is best topped by facts

like now here in france is the biggest a woman's sport ornament the female fifa world cup size money is worth some $4000000.00 twice what it was back in 2015 but nearly 10 times less than what the winner of the males tournament receives view is of the women's world cup football still fall far short of that we believe and if you with that the menstruation will see it in 205750 1000000 people watched the women's games of record but it was still fall short of the men's numbers it's going to take a long time if not for ever for attitudes to change women's footage no well no i don't like women's football it just doesn't fascinate me it's not how i want to see women but i will support the french team and hope they win against south korea and what's next you going to ask. to watch a boxing match between women in a rugby match i don't want to think that so. you can't make people like something

they don't still big corporations know they can turn a not profit by the new audiences they might not necessarily support day 5 of the l.t.v. community but they know that they can turn a lot by appealing to this to even come off with a rainbow themed bottle off mouthwash and but vices being widely ridiculed for if one looks at the range of topics featuring 9 flags each with the same team a different section of the l.t.p. teaching community. black is for a sexual says don't feel sexual attraction to anyone grace for great a sexual sometimes feel sexual attraction and demonstrate shows only feel it if they know someone well white know it's to a sexual alwis and purple represents the whole community so don't worry female sports fans with more viewership and hope the most and you see that can happen we feel dumb commercials they support and not prize money because overweight i'm not 6

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a forum to address today's abidal issues. watching a special forum coverage on r.t. . time after time see we're going on the ground just hours after theresa may step down as tory party leader leaving the illegal bombing of syria arguable bricks and chaos on $14000000.00 people in the u.k. living in poverty as a legacy coming up on the show as the president of the free world the john wayne of politics as war was raging around the world we speak to one of hollywood's best known top guys about trump's 1st explain latest. legendary activist peacemaker and calm raid of hugo chavez female castro mother to the k.g.b.

around the limits on conflict resolution as the g. 20 today debates the u.s. china trade will tell us more coming up in today's going on the ground and 1st on this day in 149 george orwell published the dystopian novel 1984 and just as 184 was 35 years up to 9049 so we had today 35 years from 1904 the one that perhaps that a political refugee in moscow who revealed a mass surveillance by nato powers using our mobile phones argues that life is more dangerous today than in the book 984. is an important book but we should not bound ourselves to the limits of the author's imagination you know our times have shown that the world is much more unpredictable and dangerous than that it's certainly dangerous for snowden he's too afraid to go to donald trump's usa for fear of capture and the man who helped him and who revealed google glass all well again hora has been tortured by the british government it southeast london according to the u.n. i mean google glasses you know possibly or. realize ational of.

some orwellian horror in the sense that. this place is google between your eyes and the world so you not only is who are collecting your email with you used seem out of use and word for and not only is it collecting for you thinking about me and searching your location information if you use and very different. interests you have on you tube and so on who are able to click directly to the images that you are pulling through well while surveillance in britain and 29000 may suppose that an idea before little a said today about george orwell's neo mccarthyite sympathies it was all well who shopped icons like charlie chaplin to u.k. authorities for subversion it was george all.