when you start with. a glimpse into a queue leaks founder julian assange says life in a high security prison in london our video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage. from national monetary fund admits mistakes were made when trying to resuscitate argentina's economy saying it failed to tackle the country's underlying problems party delves into the decades of errors made by the i.m.f. . and the new york times backtracks on its reporting on the screwball poisoning case in the u.k. for almost 2 months the paper failed to correct an article about disturbing

pictures shown to president trump supposedly capturing the aftermath of the nerve agent attack. are broadcasting live from our studios this is r t international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us our video agency ruptly has obtained exclusive footage of whistleblower julian a song in london's at belmarsh prison video shows the wiki leaks founder chatting with fellow inmates in the high security facility where he is serving a 15 week sentence for skipping bail it is the 1st time images of the sonship appeared since his arrest and removal from the ecuadorian embassy in london almost 2 months ago concerns have been mounting over his health in recent weeks after he failed to appear before court the end of may through a video link for a hearing on possible extradition. in the u.s.

the united nations special report to or on torture has condemned songes treatment over the years saying the publisher has been abused and persecuted meltzer has been talking to are to america. what we have seen now during my visit was already alarming and what we have seen since then that that his state of health has dramatically deteriorated as predicted by the psychiatrist the comping my visit what would can happen obviously in a problem of this is that 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 genocide is now waiting his next extradition hearing which is scheduled for wednesday he's wanted by washington on charges of soliciting and publishing

classified u.s. government information if extradited and found guilty he could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years here is not served once 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 restraints 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 a gallery that he's actually being charged for something that is punishable now if

you look at the 17 of the 18 charges are under the espionage act and all of them relates to activities that any investigative journalist would conduct and would be protected under i believe it's the 1st amendment of the us constitution under the freedom of press and freedom of expression. in new york times has acknowledged did miss reported on the screwball poisoning story last year involving a former russian spy and his daughter in england 2 months ago the newspaper wrote that cia director gina house bill had shown president trump images of dead ducks and sick children allegedly from the scene of the attack at the british authorities denied the fallout had affected it the animals or children or he's killed martin comments now on why it took the daily so long to issue a correction. here 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 discreet ball 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 strived 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 the jena 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. r.t. new york the russian embassy in washington has responded to the new york times of 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 managing director christine lagarde claims that they underestimated the country's complicated economic situation after taking full control of buenos aires fiscal policies forcing the public to bear the brunt of severe austerity and the i.m.f. is an organization with $189.00 member countries aimed at promoting cooperation and

facilitating international trade but its track record of revitalizing national economies not only in argentina is not exactly overflowing with success stories as our correspondent comments. you've got to understand we're just people and people make mistakes you meet we might oversleep 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 lied 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. in freefall 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 hike 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 not that i'm going to make it easy for motorists or my career old the next go because these 2 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 in the i.m.f. or just people when 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 sterett see. 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 really don't belong in that category. with the. bolivian 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 beg before but now we're country with dignity oh you can only pose it had to be decided by the i.m.f. before but now we can make our own plan we had to ask the u.s. ambassador who had to go polish this but now the poetics in our country is more democratic. it seems 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 know 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 it 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 and ministrations in argentina is a nerve brazil ecuador in places like that so it's part of u.s. policy political policy was seen the consequences of that but it's also part of the

u.s. dollar policy interest rate policy and now the global economy. and there for us of the trade policy. the lawyer of a russian investigative journalist charged in moscow with drugs possession and intent to supply says the reporter has been mistreated while in custody eternally also says he will appeal to the european court of human rights concerning the conditions of the journalists arrest. you know of a reporter for the news website medusa has been placed under house arrest until early august or until his case is heard in court his case has caused outrage among many journalist groups in russia as the journalist himself claims he was framed gold off believes he was targeted due to his investigation into possible corruption links between russian authorities and the funeral business around 300 people

gathered outside the court to support him. so. 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 the do as a correspondent yvonne going 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 and moscow. open contention 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 in the end the court decided to place skull and all of under house arrest so many people are still waiting to see with bated breath what will happen next because originally you might do it but this is not victory if you're just employed has saved his life and he's the only reason he's now going to live with you and you and his cousin francis yellow vests are baghdad it turning out for another weekend of protests that's right after a break this is international. seen

this before in the eighty's with the rise of japan and the us how to respond rejiggered the global currency markets at the plaza accord this is. the same people that gave us the plan for tension team after the crash. 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 that's a moment appear on the horizon. agree has long positioned itself as a sovereign player within the e.u. . 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.

call them back this is our team international now yellow vest protesters are conducting their 30th consecutive weekend of anti government protests in paris with demonstrations being held across france now police have used to tear gas to disperse the crowds estimated in the hundreds last weekend turnout was at its lowest since the movement started in november last year the french interior ministry said around $1500.00 marched through paris on june 1st the protests were triggered by a hike in fuel taxes and have since turned into a nationwide anti-government demonstrate. switching gears now mexico has agreed to take up what it calls unprecedented measures to stem the flow of migrants into the united states and in exchange washington will scrap the tariffs it was planning to impose on imports of mexican

goods president i will try 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 the us 1st threatened to impose a 5 percent import tax on all mexican goods last week that was due to come into effect this coming monday trump had warned that the raid would then gradually increase until it reached 25 percent now the prospect of sweeping tariffs led almost immediately to the mexican authorities adopting tougher border controls on thursday alone thousands of migrants from central america were stopped just

a few miles into mexican territory mexico's president andras manual lopez obrador had previously struck a very different tone including on the campaign trail. close oh northern neighbors the united states government would want us to do the dirty work by blocking migrants from central america looking for but alive 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 of all behave very well because they're not close dialogue. in addition to restricting migration northwards donald trump says mexico has also agreed to buy more american agricultural products and deals being seen by some as an attempt by the u.s. president to galvanize his support base and fulfill campaign promises. was. good it.

was government and policy commentator guadalupe correa cabrera called of the threat of a terrifying piece of political theater by the white house. this is the electoral times i mean from here to the election when you have less and when you don't have we're going to have this type of spectacles that 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 several. threat that was not credible mexico already already fall into the same track and they are going to continue following 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 if they don't want to be political

peanuts of of that of a president that seeking reelection. ballet is one of russia's most renowned cultural exports and a new production is making headlines in the u.s. the pygmalion effect has been brought across the atlantic by famed russian choreographer boris i've been together with the st petersburg state academic ballet theatre he is really in visioning one of the most well known plays of bernard shaw . the rock of 1000000 tells the story of an artist who fell in love with his creation for his version i've been trying to set the plot to the music of johann strauss jr the tragic comedy feature was top flight the ball of the over and it is the 17th for me over the future brings more useful to the master himself says the identifies with the title. i am very happy that i found an opportunity to do

a ballet with the music of johann strauss the music is full of emotions some feelings of my joy dancing and the ballet itself it seems to me is. turned out to be very light and festive. to you to look at the sea i'm also pygmalion to some extent because i work with young artists and when they come to me after school play are far from perfect and all my work my whole life is dedicated to bringing them to the level where they can adequately represent our theater to the world. gotta love the russian ballet or watch march international be back with say $36.00 and a half minutes more news to watch our country.

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can't believe you're so for some of us to see such great t.v. programming stacey you know i want to follow up on that theme of the weaponization of trade because this is part of what i think is the imperial rot it's not unusual as we've mentioned before it goes on throughout history as an empire falls apart thanks a lot to do with hubris and we see that with you know the chlorinated chicken trade we see that with our healthcare system here we see that with the dilapidation of our big cities like san francisco and los angeles we see that with the boeing and there are nonstop catastrophes unfolding that's all part of hubris and bullying and just we're no longer associated much with quality and a lot of it has to do with hubris right as i said it's it's that we have so much power and we've weaponized trade and we've weaponized the dollar and here is the headline china is playing the long game says charles gave there's an old saying a

wise man points to the moon and the idiot looks at the finger so as charles gave founding partner in chairman of gave cow research tariffs soybeans and rare earth metals steal the headlines when it comes to u.s. china trade tensions but these are just tools or weapons of warfare and a much larger battle over money and sovereignty and china is playing a long game he said in particular he he points out the u.s. dollar has been weaponized and china is really playing the long game by accumulating gold by creating their own futures markets by prepping for this and a very quiet way this is an interesting historical moment the rise of china this here in our own. now we have a standoff so it's going to be interesting to see how the u.s. response and how the u.s. population responds if they're staring at the moon or staring at the finger or giving the moon the finger you know that's interesting to see how the u.s. response you know the u.s. is a plucky group of rugged individualists that have come through tough times before and

will see what resources can be pulled one of us through it well we have pulled through other stuff in the past and crazy periods in civil war isn't and mass of the salem witch trials and we you know the mccarthy era and it seems a little bit like that right now that there is hysteria in the elite class because they don't know how to deal with what's going on in the world in the meantime the u.s. dollar serves as the world's reserve currency and is used for pricing in trade by a majority of nations around the globe however americans have decided to weaponize the dollar gave stated making any transactions between 2 nations susceptible to u.s. action or scrutiny this is a big loss of sovereignty for other nations he said and china's taking the lead in forming an alternative trading currency to the dollar we've talked to alison mccleod here and i think that he's right that it doesn't matter about the currency

this guy charles gave actually looks at for example that you know that china's trying to price the oil and remember and that is not what matters what matters is settlement of the trade where the settlement of the trade happens and as brad sherman a congressman from los angeles points out is that the all trade settles to the new york fed and that is important it doesn't matter what currency it is the fact that it settles for new york fed is where our control comes from so the china has a long way to go to have a trusted settlement system and perhaps gold will provide more trusted right now as i mentioned in an earlier show you know we've seen this before in the eighty's with the rise of japan and the u.s. had a response there. rejiggered the global currency markets at the plaza accord this was riggin robert rubin the same people that gave us the plunge protection team after the crash of 1970 so china doesn't seem to be wanting to play that game though so they're going to have to come up with some other strategy and at the

moment none appear on the fora isn't something is got to give either the u.s. accept 2nd class citizens in the global economy or they make some kind of dramatic move the u.s. could seize all the gold that they are holding on behalf of many nations and be the 1st to declare reste restoration of the gold standard because of course you know nixon promised that it was only temporary that would. then i follow richard nixon on twitter and. i think if i'm reading the tealeaves correctly i think that's an interesting idea i think that could happen. but so we'll see what happens there during the 2008 financial crisis we saw in russia with medvedev member he held up the gold coin at the same time china was suggesting that they would prefer something like a bank or which is a basket of commodities and currencies but again you still have the underlying if you use fiat's.