all charges against the russian investigative journalist fungal are dropped with the warning saying those responsible for his case have been spent and. also this hour leaked 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. and we look at the controversial figure whose death in syria is being mourned by parts of the mainstream media outlets are dubbing the men who condone it jihad as fought against president assad and praised the $911.00 attacks i caught.

you watching or change national bring in your line of news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program we start with breaking news this hour as russian officials have announced they have dropped the criminal case against russian investigative journalist. who had been arrested for illegal possession of drugs the evidence gathered against him was said to have been rigged salmon and found invalid or join live in the studio by now bring us up to speed on the case well we're in the heads a ruling in. the head of russia's narcotics police has been. the police officers who carried out the arrest. suspended their investigation by internal affairs how they carried out the arrest whether the used too much force whether. they're also investigating the investigation which led to the arrest to

see whether police went beyond the scope of their powers where they were whether they had legitimate evidence proof to carry out this arrest and i'm sure there'll be many more people fired because this was this was a huge scandal especially in russia very very resonant nevertheless for him the trial is now over they years by the way in in an artsy t. shirt one of one of the t. shirts that. you know now trademarked by but. for him as i say the hard part the difficult part is over. according to the results of forensic biological fingerprints and genetic testing we made a decision to stop the criminal prosecution of event go in of due to the lack of evidence of his participation in a crime today he'll be released from house arrest the charges are dropped. just to

just to repeat all charges dropped he's been released from house arrest the investigation is now over the investigation is switched to the investigators whether what they did was lawful and whether the went beyond the scope of their powers abused. their powers never the seas probably a lot happier today than he was yesterday in this case of course has provoked outrage both in the media and among the public how did it all start when he was arrested on friday that's when the news went public 1st police said that during the arrest they found 5 packages containers with methods of a drug inside them during a search of his house of his apartment they found an additional 3 containers reportedly filled with cocaine and they also found scales of the variety that he

used to weigh drugs again this is all coming from the police the investigators that have now been suspended. but immediately after his arrest the controversy began because he said that they had been planted the drugs had been planted on him and add his house urine tests other tests carried out by medics showed that he had new drugs in his system nevertheless police tried to charge him the accusation was that he was part of a drug ring drug trafficking and selling ring. his colleagues reacted straight to it the ones that work at medusa the outlet the publication where he works they didn't believe the charges they believed that they were falsified they knew him they didn't believe that he could do such a thing you know sell drugs he's respected journalist but further there was a lot of outrage over the arrested self because apparently he said he was assaulted

by a police officer he was taken to hospital the released with the doctor saying that there was nothing serious and this scandal exploded every day it got bigger and bigger and bigger went global really do we have politicians on the other you know the western hemisphere talking about this 1st began with russian journalists they came out in solidarity russia's 3 biggest newspapers running with the same headline front page saying we are ivan so in total solidarity with and then it was the t.v. channels the joined in our editor in chief margarita simonyan she came out in support of him. even the politicians we had like me a putin spokes person come out in support of him and you know with the pressure building and building perhaps. that that is what pushed the ministry of interior to

start looking at things seriously to see whether something that gone wrong because we would had protests public protests was just journalists and politicians public protests in front of the ministry of interior really got things going by the reckoning here mark garcia saying across this breaking news for us thank you. a scandal has erupted in brazil after leaked messages suggest a corruption case against the country's former president. was politically motivated . the messages published by investigative news site the intercept appear to show a judge discussing the probe with prosecutors supporters of wood the silva say the leak 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. to almost a decade behind bars for corruption and money laundering including for accepting

a luxury apartment in exchange for state contracts he denies ever owning it and the 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. we waited and waited for a response from the prosecutors for them to prove that the messages were genuine that's very cautious and scrupulous checking that the recipe 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 haven't publicly expressed doubts about the messages they know they're genuine as do we. the leaks have also led to accusations 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 into silver 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

somebody 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 because the plan was to paint the workers' party is a criminal organization with a criminal boss who happens to be made well it seems the new leaks show that little the decision 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 the deeds for one of the x. president's children apparently the person would be willing to provide the information i'm there for 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 loyd 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 gary moore 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 abnormality or providing direction since a magistrate despite information being taken out of context and the sensational esme of the articles known as acquittal so 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 to 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. parts of the mainstream media and the syrian opposition are mourning a controversial figure there branding a rebel icon who died in a battle against syrian government forces in homs province that's according to his rebel faction fighters role in syria 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 singing songs praising the revolution some of those songs however hold value is that seem to go completely against those of western countries fighting islamic state in the country r.t. is a double quarter explains and warning has report contains scenes of an execution.

he became the poster boy of the syrian uprising or shall we say the voice ringback . oh my. god. 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. and. 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 that our 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. god i. was good you know.

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 root not inspire of but despite his flaws make those stories highly plausible he's a true legend and his story is well documented may his soul rest in peace so if these guys got an oscar. and. abdul deserves a grammy no less as in other. kovar western operations

it becomes important to maintain this sense of plausible deniability it's clearly being 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 your global news update continues after the break.

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back mobile phone networks in the u.k. are calling on the government to clarify its stance on war way that's according to the b.b.c. which says it's obtained a draft 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 playbook of reports. they're concerned over the lack of clarity on walk away they've asked for an urgent 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 greenlights 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 calm 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 while away the government's got questions to walk away and it was actually one 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 while 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 utero to pieces if you should listen business with all companies that stick to the little there's a lot of the door in china isn't that just like there was a lot of law in nazi germany some laws are good little some was a bad move was some company totalitarian repressive one party states nothing to say communist china doesn't that put you see. who it would be for. your company is right you for being whomever your son should. be conservative so that your government your research. the rule. means a different picture and of course there are strong arguments on both sides on the one hand you've got the u.s. 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 rahway 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 cross says the u.s. china trade war will decide who gains technological dominance. this attack. while way and all of the chinese companies are 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 it's 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 to communicate i don't know how you kill people with 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 product did do that you know you make it sound like well you're guilty by association trade tariffs are the big issue for china and its relations with the u.s. has issued an ultimatum to his chinese counterpart xi jinping urging him to attend the upcoming g 20 summit if he doesn't the u.s. president is threatening to impose another $300000000000.00 worth of trade tariffs president xi doesn't come will that mean that the tariffs on china for the

additional $300000000000.00 in cuts go on immediately yes it would and i think he will go and i think we're scheduled to have a meeting. threat comes amid a trade war between washington and beijing last month trump raise tariffs on $200000000000.00 of chinese goods to 25 percent beijing retaliated with hikes on a revised list of u.s. products china's response targeted more than 5000 goods and came into force on june the 1st beijing and says it does not want tension with the u.s. but will respond to white house actions. china does not want to trade war which we are not afraid of one if the us is willing to negotiate on an equal footing our door will be open if the us insists on escalating trade frictions we will fight to the finish in the meantime trump is scrambling for advice on sunday he called former u.s. president jimmy carter who switch diplomatic recognition of china from taipei to beijing in 1979 carter says trump fears the country's economy is pulling far ahead

of america. we're now joined live by andrew a long international and independent china specialist for more on this now in your opinion are trumps neutral tariffs threat a bluff or serious. well of course from was pretty serious about it because i mean he's not the 1st time. trying to up his n.t.a. on terriers only believe that terrorism is a great thing for the united states because after all the u.s. dollar underpins the strain and the impact of all these tariffs there is those substitute to the u.s. dollar but on the other hand it's not going to solve the problem and then by. upping the ante and behaving like a big big bully to try are. the only inflamed the kind of sense of humiliation of the chinese nation not least the presidency king himself having the show the package of history of all the senses of the relation the insiders nation

at the hands of foreign aggressors so i think that this is going to worsen the situation. present drums terrorist threat has not been people who see very kindly by. 5 a.j. . so i think that we're going to see the situation going to get worse before it gets better and even if the presidency appears in the g 20 doesn't necessarily mean that there was going to be struck and even if there is a deal to be struck it doesn't mean that the end of the kind of jubilee the rivalry between the 2 world powers if the chinese president does attend the g. 20 summit what does trump hope to achieve with these face to face talks with him. well i think the president from probably wants to. push. the history or through with with presidency starting with the.

highest asking price at the last station before it broke off and then that the theme on includes almost complete surrender on the part of china. even though there are certain concessions which china would have to go along including the play of creating a more level playing field or bring up the economy further and also protect the lead to probably because these initiatives are in line with what china needs to do to upgrade the sea ptolemy of on me but then staying on. air. so then imposing punitive measures and then on china to give up any rifle retaliation in the sounds like.

a kind of you lateral humiliating common theme on which the chinese government is find it very difficult except. and there we don't have much time left but could you tell us quickly what are the effects that this ongoing trade war has on the rest of the world economy. but it's going to be highly disruptive as best as specially if the terrorists there as wide an effect a lot more products because nowadays. there are all these products the production supply chain around the world is becoming much more diffuse because people take part for example or call of different components the engines the horse tree that shay sees they're already one of the print countries and and they were in territories and you just can't separate one from the other even.

rare materials like rare earths embedded in a lot of pollard's across the globe so the thing that you can just impose there is and expect that all the damage is borne by one side is really. the reality so i think that the all of the rest of was likely to be held hostage to this increasing conflict and truly a lot of this entire and or long international and independent china specialist thank you for your time and your comments. china is not the only country that faces trump obsession with tariffs he's also currently taking aim at french wine. we're going to be instituting tariffs placing tariffs.

brand charges there's a lot of the whining and yes we charge of murder little french wine and you know what is the stuff there will do something about. why would the french and the want to make on the line that thanks and a nice there i can just see all those french wine can it's important to use a trump song by your account. on the color of blinds they have great line and we want french wine so knock it down there is the wine blood everywhere right now no tariffs needed. that's the news breakdown for this hour they are tuning in wherever you may be.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. hearing dramatic development the only really and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the

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