actually i'm sure he's gone in the. week to messages suggest a corruption case against brazil's former president lula da silva wasn't fact a stitch up designed to destroy his reelection bid. also this hour we'll look at the controversial figure whose death in syria is being mourned by parts of the mainstream media outlets are doubling the man who condone jihad this fall against president assad and praised the 911 attacks a rebel icon. and accusations of u.s. meddling in british politics for america secretary of state my compare this tape pledging to push back against u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbin becoming prime minister.

you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. a scandal has erupted in brazil after a leaked messages suggest a corruption case against the country's former president will lead to sylvia was politically motivated the messages published by investigative news site the intercept appear to show a judge discussing the probe with prosecutors supporters of lula da silva say the league confirms their fears the case was a stitch up designed to prevent him from winning reelection last year the probe was part of brazil's biggest anti-corruption crusade known as operation car wash which saw dozens of high level politicians imprisoned will have to sell but was sentenced to almost a decade behind bars for corruption and money laundering including for accepting a luxury apartment in exchange for state contracts that he denies ever owning it

and the leaks messages suggest prosecutors themselves question the strength of the evidence against him one of the journalists behind the revelations said they made sure the messages were genuine. me we waited and waited for a response from the prosecutors for them to prove that the messages were genuine that's a very cautious and scrupulous. when you work with explosive material like this you need to be absolutely certain that what you publish is true the prosecutors and the judge have expressed doubts about the messages they know they're genuine as do we have also led to accusations that the judge gave biased advice to the prosecutors with more details here. lula da silva who served as president of brazil from 2003 until 2010 is still wildly popular in the country brazilians associate him with good economic times when living standards were rising now a newly leaked conversation sheds some light on why he is serving

a 12 year prison sentence for corruption it turns out that his trial the judge and the prosecutor were in cahoots these are some of the private conversations that took place during the trial with judge mauro seemingly instructing the prosecutor about how to proceed with the case. hasn't it been a long time without an operation you cannot make that kind of mistake now the thing called with a that's a good idea and a prosecutor asking the judge for advice what do you think of these crazy statements from the workers' party national board should with fish to rebut well it is silva has long maintained his innocence he says the entire case was a set up he has named names. on how to political life and all of a sudden i was convicted for money laundering and organized crime it was all a law i settled on when i was by the federal police the public prosecutor's office someone more of who took on the investigation with more i didn't need any proof of crimes committed because they all had a plan in mind the plan was to paint the workers' party as

a criminal organization with a criminal boss who happens to be made well it seems the new leaks show that will lead to civil was right here is an extract where the judge is seemingly directing the prosecutor and the prosecutor himself isn't moving his case is weak. so listen for me that the contact person is annoyed at having be nice to see dr property transfer deeds for one of the x. president's children apparently the person would be willing to provide the information and therefore passing it along the source is serious they will say that they were accusing bay's a newspaper articles and for gyal evidence and here is what makes it even more scandalous lloyd to silva's imprisonment is what prevented him from running for president last year and take a look at the polls to silva had a pretty solid lead so then also narrow who won the election after his main opponent was blocked from running actually promoted judge morrow after he took office i salute. the only man in brazil who's proving that we can do

politics differently now the judge seems to think he didn't do anything wrong he says that the real crime is that these conversations have been made public it is regrettable that the person responsible for the criminal hacking of the prosecutor's cell phones has now. identified as the source there is no sign of any of normality or providing directions as a magistrate despite information being taken out of context and the sensational as some of the articles known as accuse us of those accusations published by the intercept are not true and their origin is linked to a criminal hack even though i don't acknowledge the trustworthiness of the messages realized that they can create some discomfort for some people who are deeply sorry about that leak telegram conversations give the impression that the silver was railroaded in order to keep him off the ballot and there is more to come for me and we are continuing our work on the case as we said these are just off 1st reports we

have a lot of information we have analyzed i think only one percent of the conversations we will publish materials from these messages are. parts of the mainstream media and the syrian opposition are mourning a controversial figure of their branding a rebel icon who died in a battle against syrian government forces and homes province according to his rival faction the fighters are all in syria's uprising was the subject of an award winning documentary a goalkeeper for the country's youth football team he gained prominence for staging street protests against president assad and sing songs praising the revolution some of those songs though hold value that seem to go completely against those of western states finding islamic state in the country artie's quarter explains a warning his report contains scenes of an execution. he became the poster boy of the syrian uprising or shall we say the voice ringback.

showing. and his death in battle against government forces apparently made him a fallen hero in the eyes of the media syrian football and singer of revolution killed in conflict. syrian soccer goalie who became rebel i can dies in battle syrian soccer star symbol of free vault dies after battle. that also route was a former syrian footballer who turned rebel fighter and not just any rebel fighter oh no he became an icon of the fight against bashar al assad so he wasn't shying away from speaking the truth here's one of the so-called singer of the revolutions greatest hits judge for yourself.

perhaps the lyrics don't exactly communicate the artist's intended message that's all right though also it was much more articulate about his political beliefs in this 2014 interview about the vision of what we do blame islamic state. but that blame comes with love because we know that these 2 groups and not politicized and have the same goals as us they are working for god and they care about islam and muslims no you didn't hear that wrong the same goals as islamic state and apparently 911 was a great accomplishment to. was good yet. there are those in the media who acknowledge it's problematic characteristics but

for them a little elbow rubbing with terrorist groups shouldn't stand between him and his rightful page in the history books. some individuals celebrated as heroes make you doubt all stories of heroes in history books others like abdul basset also route not inspire off but despite his flaws make those stories highly plausible he's a true legend and he story is well documented may his soul rest in peace so if these guys got an oscar. abdul deserves a grammy no less as in other. kovar western operations it becomes important to to maintain this sense of plausible deniability it's clearly

been useful for for the us and the us media to maintain the whole idea of there being moderate democratic forces among the rebels in syria but clearly most of the groups fighting the government were really extreme islamist groups that's the reality and these were the groups that the cia and and its allies its british and french and saudi and qatari and turkish allies were supporting and arming from the very early stages of this conflict. the u.s. secretary of state is facing accusations of meddling in british democracy that's after my pump said he would push back if you can't opposition leader jeremy corbin became prime minister. it could be the mr corbin manages to run the gauntlet and get elected it is possible you should know we won't wait for him to do those things

to begin to push back we will do our level best is to risky into important and to hard ones who already happened a recording of those remarks made to jewish leaders was leaked to the washington post charlotte n.c. has more. uncle sam wants you to know that special relationship could end up on the trash heap if it doesn't like the choices that us brits make the us secretary of state mike pompei o has pledged he won't wait for jeremy corbyn to become prime minister to start the pushback against any actions that his administration might take against british jews while those views come amidst a backdrop of anti sematic allegations in the labor party what the us is perhaps really concerned about is that a korban government might try and distance itself from the u.s. and pursue a more radical policy when it comes to countries like venezuela corbin the call me

is hardly who washington sees itself in bed with by airing those thoughts behind closed doors perhaps pompei it was being a little bit more tactful than his own boss who spent last week trumpeting his support for boris johnson or jeremy hunt as the next defacto prime minister worse i like your my i've liked him for a long time he's i think you do a very good job boris and trump are definitely a good fit both have shocking blond hair and were born in the u.s. making boris if he wins the tory leader ship brace an american slash british prime minister but is it really fair for washington to blatantly push its weight behind one or 2 candidates over another of course it's not the 1st time that this has happened or lower. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the

united states supports the courageous decision by juan gado the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government these case is hardly venezuela yet when it comes to what the us wants it doesn't seem to matter how independent a country is or how rip us to its democratic systems are what the us wants in a special relationship is one where it pulls all the strings so that people are. international affairs commentator dolphin still believes pump a 0 is interfering in british politics it's one thing to criticize say you disagree with another government's policy that's legitimate under international diplomacy and to actually take action trying to reverse policies. is beginning to become

interference works you said which is really sinister is she said rachel begin to push back against actions taken by jeremy colgan well pushing back is more than criticism it implies that she's going to intervene if physically in british politics and possibly undermine it called in that they have a government it's not your typical slope don't tell you how to meit was a he's trying to organise it would be trying to organize a coup against the british government or put sanctions on the british government or some other way to try and put pressure between that goes beyond verbal criticism that we don't return to exactly what he has in mind he just uses that were pushed back but it's action he's talking about. christmas. mobile phone networks in the u.k. are calling on the government to clarify its stance on a huawei that's according to the b.b.c. which says it's obtained it rough letter from industry leaders to the british

cabinet secretary there apparently concerned whether the chinese tech giant will be allowed to supply the new 5 g. network oil worker reports the government's been asked for reaction on this news of industry bosses can sun they've asked for an agent meeting with the government in order to discuss those concerns essentially there's a sense that they've been left sort of hanging over the government's indecision over whether or not to green lights the use of huawei technology in the rollout of the 5 g. network here in the u.k. so as a result these industry bosses khant invest in vital infrastructure going forward for the government they've stressed the importance of security above all else take a lesson the security and resilience of the key still to come snap works is of paramount importance we have robust procedures in place to manage critics to national security and are committed to the highest possible security standards

while the industry has questions for the government over a while away the government's got questions to walk away and it was actually well ways cyber security officer who was. was giving on says in front of a committee of m.p.'s publicly yesterday and the politicians repeatedly asked him about wild ways alleged links to the chinese states and about alleged human rights abuses as well and his repeated was that while way works within the framework of the nor should we do business with a company that is complicit in human rights abuses if you should listen business with all companies that stick to the there's a lot of china isn't there just like there was a lot of law in nazi germany. some laws are good little some was a bad move was some come to tell the press of one party states nothing to say communist china doesn't that put you see where we've come through and who it would

be for it's a complete. your company we're here is right you for being whom i'm your son should . be your service to the german government your research and we will. see our planes a different picture and of course there are strong arguments on both sides on the one hand you've got the us pressuring the u.k. to reject qual way technology saying that it presents a danger to national security and on the other hand there's the opinion that in measured doses only on certain parts of the 5 g. network using one way can be perfectly safe and moreover is actually vital for the future of britain as sort of a front runner in the lead technologically and so far this debate has been very political but now we're seeing industry step in and say actually we need clarity on what happens with wall way. political economy professor jack rasmussen says the

u.s. china trade war will decide who gains technological dominance in this attack. on all the chinese companies actually here is really about this big fight between the u.s. and china over who's going to dominate technology in the next decade the u.s. trade war is really about chinese technology the trade war is beginning to slide into an economic war as the u.s. goes globally to try to wean its allies away from any kind of economic relationships with china is kind of an absurd comment because you know i.g. farben product was designed to kill people whereas you know holloway's product is designed for people that communicate i don't know how you kill people whether with with the phone network you can take somebody by association you say i mean you know you don't say that huawei kills people but by associating them with

a company that whose products did do that you know you make it sound like well you're guilty by association coming up muslim gangs in the u.k. jails are using the threat of violence to get prisoners to convert to islam the details after the break. one else seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me i'll get to see how it does the attitude and it against me because the trail. when something find themselves worlds apart. just on the common ground.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic. and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back muslim gangs in high security jails in the u.k. are forcing prisoners to convert to islam with threats and beatings the claim comes in a report by the ministry of justice. all the prison is scared of us they know they're only going to 3 of the jail sunday no that will be brought this way to stop them

there is an underlying pressure for people to convert and join the gang the tactic they use to befriend someone when they come in if they don't convert they will then start spreading rumors about them that the person is a snitch so that they will be ostracized then the beatings will follow once they go to a category b. prison i'll say good bye to his if i said i didn't want to be a muslim i need to wash oh in case someone stabbed me it's very dangerous to denounce islam it would be nice to be true to myself. the study at 3 top security prisons found muslim gangs used violence and threats to push prisoners into converting their forces such methods are becoming increasingly widespread and high security jails that's due to such factors as social deprivation of liberty and the need for protection there are almost $13000.00 muslim prisoners in british jails about 15 percent of them total jail population and march 2017 there were $186.00

terrorists being held in british jails 90 percent of them were muslim 3 so-called jails within the jail were also set up to house a problem is amiss in its we put the issues raised up for debate. certainly in prisons gang culture has always existed what happens here is it's a loose label of a muslim we are now touching ourselves with someone not being converted forcibly converted they're actually drifting towards the brig a group of people who they feel more aggressive and if they coexist with that maybe well i've worked in prisons david if you have a dollar is an intervention have you worked would like to have work in prison but i'm going to have an opinion on line terrorists well done but that doesn't divert from the simple truth in this report and the truth in this report is that muslim goings are causing great trouble inside marksman security presence and that the people at the top of the muslim goings are convicted terrorists and it's not going

to be solved by diversity and the snow going to be caused by reaching out to them it's going to be cause it's going to be solved by making sure that the target ideologues are taken right out of it where they cannot spread their poison it's really simple and money every way we have a little it will be able to dive as a national thing david we need a multi-dimensional approach the more vulnerable individuals diversity actually does work with them reintegration is a model that the government has been working in the prison system if you isolate no but if you isolate will go in and out of the bottom of that kind of system when they go back into society the transition is that much more difficult my point also one muslim i think that the label is very easily given most muslims would argue that these kind of individuals who forcibly convert people which is against their own faith they're actually not very muslim if they were muslim in the 1st place they wouldn't be locked up in prisons i mean if they're not muslims they seem a bit they seem to be unaware of it rather don't they they seem to think they're

muslims the court system seems to think that salute the department of justice thing i think that's exactly what they are i'm suggesting essentially a british get more for these end of it individuals that's what's worked successfully in the in the states. where there would be one tylenol and there was all and i think we need to know your lies on the thing that. we have elected not work situation we don't have the money to build these maximum prisons and what has kuantan of all really achieved it's made sure that those interned have never committed any more crime once they get out of prison they could be even worse information be given to is important thing is we have changed people in prison we have brought them around we do have the counter-narrative we have the individuals we have the interventionist practitioners and very well informed scholars who have been able to change people's mindsets and that actually costs a lot less than building what he sees is what i present or not i'm going to acknowledge the other side of my own all i seek to do is to protect innocent british citizens from the consequences of radicalized muslims coming out of prisons

and doing the things that we've seen from 2015 actually by the way on westminster bridge and other parts of the u.k. i want to see all that stopped and the way you do that is it's not a point it's not about pastors it's not about preachers it's a boy the strongest security imaginable and that's what we need. the u.s. supreme court has refused to hear the appeal of a prisoner at guantanamo bay giving no reason for the decision why are we spent 17 years in detention without charge according to associate justice stephen breyer the detainee may never be freed. is the real prospect that he will spend the rest of his life in detention based on his status as an enemy combatant a generation ago. the yemeni said this and has been that guantanamo since 2002 he denies fighting for the taliban and al qaeda or being as well as some of bin laden's body guard his lawyers call the detention unconstitutional the kuantan

a mobile bay prison that was created almost 20 years ago it houses 40 prisoners most of whom have never been charged and that's amid numerous allegations of torture back in 2008 at the u.s. supreme court ruled that prisoners can challenge their detention in federal courts however most appeals have failed. we spoke with ramsey cost him a law professor at the city university of new york who represents all while he told us there is no evidence his client ever fought against the u.s. or its allies. he has not been charged with any crime let alone convicted the u.s. courts that have looked at his case so far have found that there is no evidence that he ever took up arms against the united states or its allies that point is not even disputed so the fact that the government has still fought tooth and nail to keep going to guantanamo after 17 years in the courts have signed off on that really speaks the extent to which or reflects the extent to which both the law and

the government have become cruel and inhumane in these cases but what is remarkable is that justice briar has written a statement which happens very rarely in these sorts of procedures to indicate just how rageous mr always situation is the reason that he remains a guantanamo today and many others like him are free is that he has the misfortune of being the citizen of yemen and not a citizen of the united kingdom france australia saudi arabia or another cover a government that enjoys strong ties with the united states it's really all politics it's got nothing to do with security or anything that mr ali is even alleged to have done he remains an innocent man he said want on a more after 17 years in their 40 remaining prisoners at guantanamo today $26.00 of them are yemenis that's are global is that they for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more.

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