british intelligence service m i 5 is under scrutiny are revealed the agency has been illegally holding on to masses of personal data also to come survive in london's run felt tower 5 begin legal action against u.s. companies whose materials they say contributed to the tragedy and the u.s. report requests edition of wiki leaks founder co-founder cubing sound on spying related chart.

below there is just going to leaven o'clock in the morning here in moscow you watching r.t. international the british internal security service m i 5 is under fire for illegally holding on to bulk data collected on citizens the situation came to light during a case brought by the civil rights group liberty m i 5 have been holding on to people's day time ordinary people's data your data my data illegally for many years not only that they've been trying to keep their really serious errors secret secret from the security services watchdog who's supposed to know about them secret from the home office secret from the prime minister and secrets from the public which are in the trial it emerged that m i 5 was already aware of the failures 3 years ago with more on the story his. well there might not be a plaque on the door but even google maps will tell you that that building over

there is m i 5 britain's domestic intelligence agency and even though its job is to root out the bad guys the agency itself has been accused of extraordinary and persistent illegality in a high court case civil rights group liberty brought the legal challenge against m i 5 to the high court the case against m i 5 now relates back to a law that was passed in the u.k. in 2016 the investigatory powers act back then the new legislation was sold as something that would create transparency in the wake of the snowden scandal which had revealed that the u.s. and its allies including the u.k. had been collecting vast troops of public data but the investigatory powers act quickly became dubbed the snoopers charter privacy campaigners claim it simply legalized the practices that snowden had exposed and introduced intrusive new

powers there is however a government watchdog that's meant to oversee the u.k.'s sweeping surveillance laws and according to documents revealed in court that watchdog the u.k.'s investigative powers commissioner has delivered a highly critical assessment of m i 5 in particular over m i 5 storage of cracked public data in one letter presented in court m i 5 knowledge that personal data collected by m i 5 was being stored in ungoverned spaces. there is a high likelihood of material being discovered when it should have been deleted in a disclosure exercise leading to substantial legal or oversight failure back in may britain's home secretary sajid javid revealed that compliance risks had been identified with how and why 5 handled data the report of the investigatory powers

commissioner's office into these risks concluded that they were serious and required immediate mitigation the commissioner also expressed concern that m i 5 should have reported the compliance risks to him sooner the court case which is ongoing also revealed that the government watchdog would be subjecting m i 5 to far greater scrutiny from now on comparing it to a school being placed on special measures which is the government's equivalent of the naughty step. with the u.k. home secretary to say that m i 5 has taken immediate and substantial steps to comply with the law with a social media lawyer cohen doesn't believe that anybody will be punished. it is very clear to him a fact is not complying with the law old some of the information was was highly highly sensitive information if this type of data is been kept in

a secure manner it means that it was open for 4 perhaps hundreds of people to view it and then there was a high likelihood that would have been leaked to the public maybe to the newspaper maybe there would have been even. leaked leaks of of the data due to all sorts of organisations the children really be accepting the data for national security reasons only question is whether they are going to be any sanctions imposed on the individuals. in i think the answer is probably not. nearly $250.00 survivors and relatives of the victims of the grand felt have a tragedy in london assuming 3 us that made materials used at the residential complex it is claimed they facilitated the spread of the devastating fire in 27 saying some of the materials are banned from use on us skyscrapers prompting

accusations of double standards are comics and the message that foreign lives are worth less than american lives and that it is acceptable to expose people outside the united states to dangerous to which people in the united states would not be exposed the lawsuit names are conic whose exterior cladding was highly flammable and help spread the flames quickly it also names whirlpool the maker of the refrigerator the plate of course the fire and insulation made by cellar techs is said to have released cyanide gas leading to further victims.

but all 3 companies did express their sympathies but the victims will pull also noted that the separate problems failed to find fault with his refrigerator sell a tech said it's installation is just one element of the cladding system means on the tower dark onyx says it will respond in court we spoke to pay to have it co-founder of pay any lawyers for grand fell he says that multinationals who are found guilty of negligence are likely to be punished. the united states does have a very little good a friendly culture whereby if a multinational national company has been guilty often selling negative product or french trail products without sufficient safeguards then they will carry those

previously been cases in the united states where the building collapses resulted in damages of around about $230000000.00 to be distributed to the victims and residents and the tragedy i believe there's a 2 year limitation period in the united states that action must be commenced the full 2 years expires otherwise the limitation act would rule any action outside of their limited jurisdiction of the u.s. so it is a necessity to safeguard the legal position and at the end of the day the question is are the individuals the grand sold stuff that so much going to get you to real benefits for those and families who have been bereaved people who are often the breadwinners and therefore if that is right then that must be part of a just settlement. meanwhile the council for that part of london where grand fell happened is under investigation itself over claims its negligence led to the tragedy returns the speech to an activist trying to hold north kensington to

account for its alleged role going underground is after this news bulletin but his a preview. we did invite the council of the richest council in britain people to come all the tory council they said no one was available but they said no one would have intentionally put lives at risk and no one foresaw the grenfell tragedy. no one foresaw. i think that indicates a real what we call institutional into friends of the tenants of grenfell tower one housed ultimately by the council they made the decision to save money and put a cheaper cladding on. they made a whole range of decisions that actually meant that grenfell was a death trap. now u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request to the u.k.

for the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder gina songe that's according to media reports citing officials from both countries the us has indicted him on 17 counts of spying and one of conspiracy to hack the government computer an extradition hearing will be held on friday resigned his father says his son is currently recovering from dramatic weight loss this is a video from inside the prison and obtained by artie's ropy video agency last month june assigns was moved to a medical board in prison and was to will to appear in court 5 video link for a hearing we can he said itor in chief says son she will not get a fair trial. i don't believe that we are going to win this with legal arguments there is no chance the julian will get a fair trial here in the yuki or in the u.s. of course unless there's a change of reporting that people actually start speaking out we're not talking about a prosecution we're talking about a persecution well sanjay's father did pay me

a visit at belmarsh prison expressing concern over his health and possible extradition. preach to retore urgency strides against somebody who's more suited. to. the world you. do it. pretty fully using our car. will work with. you. well sanjay serving a 50 week term in the u.k. is high security belmarsh prison for jumping bail in 2012 and a pro he was forcibly removed by british police from the ecuadorian embassy in london after quito ended his 7 year asylum if convicted in the us he could be sentenced up to 175 years behind bars and while gina sanjaya waits his fate his former protector ecuador is refusing to extradite an alleged american fraudster to

the u.s. ecuadorian president lanham rayno has personally blocked proceedings citing national sovereignty reasons humanitarian concerns and also international law we asked wiki leaks activist clark stoically why the 2 cases are being treated so differently. i don't want double standards very hypocrite always very showy of the morals and ethics of these governments you know the message that wiki leaks has been publishing has been the truth showing that these major or. government organizations are committing fraud or committing war crimes and so forth . and you know then the messenger is going to be the one that keeps going you know walk away the fact that america is it's always with a 100 percent factual evidence. maybe people need to start reading the

facts of the matter rather than those who preserve to us. the phonies almost 80000 people have now signed a petition demanding that its lead drop criminal proceedings against the german by captain claimed the 35 year old skipper of the leventon rescue ship is accused of the betting illegal immigration after she personally sisted in the rescue of more than 1000 migrants they were risk of drowning in unsafe things as they attempt to cross the mediterranean sea to reach europe. has more on the story. this is the case of peer clem a german boat captain and hero to some criminal to others she was at the helm of the event of boat in august 2017 when it entered the port of lumpy do is it located on an island between malta and the coast of tunisia the rescue vessel was detained

and appears a lawyer now says she may face up to 20 years in prison and horrendous fines but no matter what appears stance is unwavering get off we have witnessed what women and children have to face if they are denied safe travel by ignoring the submarine boats of european warships and expelling libyan militias people who shelter refugees from unsuitable overcrowded scraps and beat them up sometimes too late italian investigators have accused her crew of colluding with smugglers with photos leaked to the media alleged in the bodes returning to libya's coast on purpose to be used again by smugglers a date hasn't been set yet for with klemp has dubbed her show trial and many agree tens of thousands of people are back in her in a petition calling for italy to drop the charges this however falls under matteo salvini is crackdown they tell interior minister and deputy prime minister is known

for his open and strong until migrant views to stop rescue ships that are carrying migrants from docking on it telling shores and allowing refugees to disembark it's what he's been after since his appointment last year and he has supporters too it's not as though the italians are to do without probable cause there is much truth reporting that every year of investigation preceded the arrest including videos witness statements don't develop the picture mrs rescuing people from drowning is b.s. propaganda rescue them and take them to germany it is quite convenient to rescue people and leave them initially greece cetera we have enough migrants we don't. wants anymore she may believe the trafficking of people that's illegal she's responsible for the so-called refugee crisis there is a clear split within the e.u. over how to tackle the migrant crisis and while they seat undecided on whether to assist or hinder the flow of migrants into europe captain clem could be losing her

battle at sea and entre. reef nationality reporting from germany although the italian authorities say that there and he migrant policy is a success rights organizations continue to say but lives still being put at risk. pretty much a year since the start of the year there have been around 2000 rivals by sea using small boats sailing boats rowing boats whatever they have to cross the mediterranean or that's compared to $14000.00 last year. by guns have no say in how or when to leave the traffickers make that decision for them they couldn't care less if the people arrive dead or alive if we do not intervene soon it will be a sea of blood the reason why all dissent in this because there is no agreement to that european level for the resettlement of the asylum seekers and therefore easily could have become just the container of all asylum seekers waiting for

maybe resettlement in other european countries the 1st thing is to return to the european level and establish clear rules that apply to all member states so the country of 1st arrival we could say doesn't become also and only the only one to receive these people so this this food creates a flow there should be a coordinated approach. but at the moment to europe is not capable of device in any kind of solution so to come this hour the new york times has dropped political cartoons after the publisher faced a survey of backlash over one of them we'll have a look at that in more detail plus other stories to come just up.

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welcome back the russian investigative journalist even going off has been released from higher sarette with the charges against him dropped he had been accused of illegal drug possession with intent to distribute in what he claimed was a trumped up case over his journalistic activity officials are now saying that the evidence was read and and find to be invalid got enough was met spy cheering crowds of supporters. was. refusing it i hope the investigation will continue and no one will find themselves in the same situation i happen to be in for a little. research i think small children for support think you know

a new term to come to terms with what's happened since it wasn't. what he was detained on thursday with police officers claiming that they found drugs on him and that is flat he said the evidence had been planted in retaliation for his investigative journalism the offices suspected of framing him have been suspended russia's interior minister has started investigation into the detention and asked the russian president vladimir putin to fire 2 high ranking moscow police general worse over the case. of the rest sparked a widespread public outcry in russia many journalistic and other public figures rallied in support of him accusing the police of misconduct there were protests in front of moscow of the moscow police department and 3 of russia's biggest newspapers ran the same from page with the headline we are even going off

independent political analyst alessandra bruno says that the way the way the case has played out as a number of positive takeaways. it is definitely a victory for civil society but it's also a victory for clean government and i'm happy to see that the people responsible have been put under investigation and most importantly the civil society and media were able to express their opinions and support for gore not really in the west in particular where a lot of. propaganda against russia is presented and prepared. we are often told that the media in russia is very. controlled by the state and censored so i think this case is perhaps not very good for a good enough it's a very important case in helping to show that perhaps the media in russia is much

freer than we believe. now the new york times has officially stopped publishing political cartoons it comes just over a month after a strong backlash against a karting featuring a blind president donald trump led by the israeli prime minister in the form of a guide dog one of the paper's long time contributors from feeling the move the new york times will and all political cartoons are just learned we suffer through a publisher syndicated no 2 new yorker to their caused a scandal for me this is the end of an adventure the begin 20 years ago. trisha patty there also complained about moralistic influencing news rooms and in his post he stressed step without humor we are all dead the new york times issued an apology soon after the offending karting was published the disputed image of donald trump and benjamin netanyahu was the work of antonio whate'er and tunas back in may he

hit back over the controversy claiming that the backlash was fabricated by quote jewish propaganda meanwhile the decision of the new york times to abandon political cartoons caused uproar on twitter the n.y.t. really did fail this time decision not to run political cartoons by n.y.t. opinion is spineless we need political humor now more than ever 4 years ago the new york times was all just see surely now they're no longer publishing cartoons new york times are not throughout to be with the bathwater yassar is a terrible lapse in judgment to print that cartoon so part dies and have a keener eye free readers flea offensive cartoons john and art from completely the political cartoonist and author ted rall believes that not being able to laugh at political leaders creates a serious problem for society. this is a pretty despicable series of events i mean 1st of all i don't think we need to

throw on tonio the portuguese cartoonist under the bus there really is but it's highly debatable whether his cartoon was anti-semitic or not and i think to portray him as an anti-semite despite the fact that he repeatedly has denied it is really egregious and something that many of my colleagues probably should have spoken out against 2 months ago and now you have the new york times firing its own syndicate i mean the editors who ran the cartoons are still working at the new york times and the and now they're firing to cartoonist who had nothing to do with the cartoon in question so i mean i've never heard of a political cartoonist getting fired over a cartoon that he did not draw so the new york times has literally declared nuclear war against my art form they've decided that all traditional editorial cartoons that depict a strong opinion about the events of the day will no longer appear there when we can't laugh at ourselves when we can't poke fun at our political leaders we've got

a major problem on our hands politically. police have used to gas water cannon and pepper spray against protesters in hong kong where it will make its delayed voting on a controversial bill after tens of thousands of people took to the streets the bill would enable the semi autonomous region to extradite suspects to mainland china activists say that would see too much control to beijing and also encroach on hong kong special status they think it would enable politically motivated expeditions although supporters of the bill and they say it is necessary to prosecute crimes committed by hong kong residents in china you machelp spanks the enterprise team gave their employees the day off to protest on wednesday on sunday over a 1000000 people in hong kong protested to say. so that brings you up to date what she could have the company as usual we're back with more

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were going on the ground 2 years after near liberalism doggedly caused an inferno that killed 72 innocent people today almost 25000 homes in the u.k. buildings clad in the same flammable material 8400 of those in the social housing sector and a further 15 percent of austerity cuts have impacted the fire services that saved lives that night no one who made the decisions that caused the fire that night has been arrested coming up in today's grunfeld out of us are special the rule of law all the rule of money ahead of the 2nd anniversary of the great survivor. joe delaney questions why campaigners are being imprisoned while those responsible for

the tragedy walk free to ask pat mason the labor leader of granite falls local council the richest in britain what he thinks of the leaked plans of us secretary of state might compare stabilised britain's top liberal politician jeremy corbett plus justice convener of continuing sidewalks through britain's richest enclave on the imminent risk of another grim fell days after another london following alleged ignored warnings from residents and. political. world support. hip hop artist and activist low key performances ballad against corporate manslaughter coming up in today's going underground grunfeld anniversary special but 1st the amazon washington post has obtained a leaked recording of u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh suggesting the trump administration is targeting the leadership of western europe's largest socialist movement the chief target of the former cia boss another usa top diplomat mike pompei o is labor leader jeremy

corbyn labor has responded saying president trump and his officials attempt to decide who will be britain's next prime minister are an entirely unacceptable interference in the u.k.'s democracy jeremy corbett himself was the 1st senior politician to meet granville survivors after the catastrophic fire peo later in the show joining me now is an evacuee on the night of the joe delaney of the greenfield action group joe welcome to going underground just before we get out of a street you're wearing that i am indeed i am response that's the name of someone quoted by the member of parliament for kensington chelsea who claimed that rhys morris is locked up while grenfell perpetrators of frequenting why they claim to want to talk about what's emblematic i mean it's ridiculous that. clearly traumatized individual who's absolutely been scarred by the charge of a. member of the north. kensington community has lived in the area his entire life he lost family members and friends in the towers in the fire at the tower he's

obviously upset about that because of the lack of support that has been in the area in terms of health and social care and you know just basic structural support for anyone at all he's feeling rather upset basically unfortunately his anger got the better of him and one point he was jailed for strangling. well yeah he basically he had an altercation with a member of staff who manages the gram false site because the plastic covering that they've put on it keeps coming off despite repeated assurances that they've fixed it now and it didn't matter how strong the winds got that it would stay on this keeps happening and frankly you know it's like ripping a plaster of an open wound it leads to this is a long time after the fire the actual top woollens and so on on the building the full power comes off all the time it comes off all the time and the only time there is the room.