ron accuses the united states of supporting mass protests sparked by a hike in fuel prices. to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with the. people will not be taken advantage of outsiders and put economic pressure on nations. alleged russian interference is said to be unquantifiable in a still classified u.k. intelligence report as well should be to rather secluding r.t. get a mention. of violence in hong kong and there's a new face with a vicious standoff at the university of hong kong protesters there used homemade weapons including bosun arrows to injure police.

good evening great to have you with us this is r.t. and. the president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over a 50 percent hike in fuel prices said sunday the government will compensate those worst hit however there has been trouble and at least a dozen cities buildings there vandalized pictures of iran's supreme leader. well we've heard something coming out of europe finally and germany was the 1st european country to react and essentially berlin has said has called on the reigning in government to recognize what it called

a legitimate plight of the people it is legitimate and deserving of our respect when people courageously aired their economic and political grievances as this card li happening in iran the iranian government should respond to the current protests was a willingness to negation dialogue while this statement is bound to ruff quite some more feathers i should say in tehran because from the beginning of the up he of all the reigning in government has been saying that this hike in fuel prices is a lesser evil that its economy has been backed into a corner and the other option is for the country's economy to crumble under the weight of the u.s. sanctions indeed the american penalties is something that iran has been citing as the key reason for all the economic trouble and hardship and these really unpopular measures the general public that to lawn has had to go for. but

a bilin is not the only one siding with the protesters washington itself was in fact the 1st for a nation to come out forward and side with the protesters which despite all the violence and rioting and looting and even deaths washington has called a peaceful protest. as i said to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you the united states supports the iranian people in the peaceful protests against the regime that is supposed to lead them we condemn the lethal force and severe communications restrictions used against demonstrators but we certainly stand by the people of iran what you're seeing today is them standing up. to their government saying that you know we demand accountability such comments have been met with outrage and iran for instance the leader of the country has said that he won't allow any outside force to hold his country hostage by sanctions alone not our people will not be taken advantage of by

outsiders who put economic pressure on our nation well it really is the country's economy runs economy of course has been in somewhat of a freefall of a nosedive since these sanctions were imposed against it its currency its national currency has lost some 60 percent of its value the inflation hiked over 41 percent by this tobar and it's not only the energy sector or or the nuclear sector that has been targeted by sanctions no the country's health care system has been targeted and has suffered badly from all the penalties for instance iran has been suffering from a severe shortage of life saving medications and just to give you a reminder as to what the as to where these sanctions came from last year donald trump decided to unilaterally withdraw from the runs a nuclear deal that mover was met with criticism by all other sides who signed the agreement back in 2015 those sides include the european union and russia and iran

too but when it comes to the european union an american ally they while criticizing washington's decision they have failed to take any action they have failed to pressure to make washington come back to the negotiating board. and signed the deal again and so this is what really didn't stand well with the to iran and iran has. drawn accuse the european union of not being as committed to the nuclear deal as the claim the are and this recent reaction that has been that has started to come out of europe with this recent statement from berlin this is not going to give iran any more hope or any more trust in europe as its partner meanwhile the international atomic energy agency is saying that iran has informed the body it succeeded its stocks of heavy water above the level permitted by the nuclear deal

condemned european signatories to the treaty for failing to deliver on their promises to boost trade with iran after the u.s. withdrew from the treaty and reapplied sanctions says that iran's been taking steps away from the accord for us are political science at the university of tehran and believes europe didn't want to maintain the deal in the 1st place. the europeans wanted to keep the deal in place but they were unable to stand you know american pressure their companies weren't able to really invest in iran because of the us hegemony in the global economic order perhaps the europeans didn't want to keep the deal in place from the beginning rather the europeans were playing a good cop bad cop strategy against iran in which the americans were the bad cop and the europeans were the good call when the u.s. decided to leave the nuclear deal and it was the europeans that convinced iran to stay in the deal and they promised that you know they would shield yvonne from the

sanctions and as a result of that iran actually stayed in the deal for a whole year without backing away from any of its of the geishas because of those european promises in reality none of those promises materialized so i think there is actual the actual possibility that the europeans weren't sincere in any of the promises they made from the beginning. russia major ellis r.t. and sputnik allegedly named in a still classified hugh kaye parliamentary report on moscow suspected interference in the 2016 briggs it referendum the claims made in an article printed in the british newspaper the sunday times the report apparently also states though that the impact of supposed russian meddling is unquantifiable it's our explains. well over the weekend the murdoch owned sunday times published an article with a headline saying revealed the russia report although this so-called report itself

hasn't been released but this times claims to have got access to it and seen what's within it and as far as they're concerned met much of the focused is on sputnik the news agency and also r.t. and goes on to describe some of the numbers behind artie's online activity in the lead up to the 2016 breck's it referendum social media analysis revealed that articles published by the russian sites had 4 times more social media impact before the brakes a vote than the official leave campaigns more than 260 articles posted by r.t. in sputnik in the 6 months prior to the referendum was shared so widely on twitter that they could have been seen up to 134000000 times so would appear journalism equals interference now the cross party intelligence and security committee they're the ones who have been investigating the so-called alleged russian interference and

they're the ones who of drawn up this report but the government led by boris johnson they've been accused of sitting on this report and not releasing it earlier this month and that's led to heavy criticism from members of the opposition by secretary tell me that it is unprecedented but we should have had no response or tool explaining why any further delay is required in this case this is nothing less than an attempt to suppress the truth from the public and from parliament and it is an affront to our democracy if the report is being called for and written and should be in the public domain then what has it got to hide people will be justified in drawing the conclusion that the reporters findings are compromising or worse for the governments and the 2. now the opposition say that there could be information in that report which is damaging to the conservative party and that's why they haven't released it but number 10 deny any wrongdoing

saying that they are following all normal procedures now those of us who have been following u.k. politics are used to open interference from u.s. politicians going back to barack obama telling u.k. voters to vote to remain in the referendum to donald trump just recently telling niger frauds and boris johnson to come to some kind of leave alliance which it appears could have actually taken place now yet another u.s. politician has decided to wade into this latest route i'm dumbfounded that this government won't release the report about russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens reporter like you and others should be absolutely relentless in trying to get to the bottom of it now that report hasn't been released in full yet and it's likely that it will be and so after those deductions are held on the top of december.

the violence in hong kong is entered a new phase there's been a fierce standoff at the university of hong kong police there trying to reject demonstrators from the campus but it's being met with fire bombs and there was an unusual change in the choice of weapons from the protesters some of them equip themselves with homemade boat as one police officers leg was pierced with a narrow during a confrontation around a barricade university there are also reports of rogers hampering the emergency services china has warned a continuation of the protests could lead to a dreadful future for hong kong. oh. there it. is oh. thank you. very. since jean and to government rallies against plans to allow extradition to mainland china have escalated the bill was withdrawn 3 months later but the

violence continued with people demanding for democracy and an inquiry into offices actions which they describe the police brutality since the protests began some 4 and a half 1000 people have been arrested for unlawful assembly taking part in a riot carrying a weapon and we u.k. police officer peter kirk and says that the vast majority of the actions of the hong kong police have been lawful because the city was being threatened the bottom line is that there is any use of force it can be complained about in the news complained about as police brutality do you see occasional instances of higher use of force which maybe are excessive not sure of the ins and outs of phone calling law but i suspect it's fairly similar to u.k. law in soem sort of a reasonable amount of force being used to call rights and disperse protesters who are causing damage or threatening injury and so the vast majority of force be used by the police would be lawful would be reasonable but in most circumstances.

officials in denmark of temporarily impose checks at border crossings or to sweden and they respond to by a spate of bombings and shootings around the capital copenhagen among them was the bombing of the tax agency in august the danish justice ministry claims that the perpetrators had trouble there from sweden that is evangelise obsessed reports from the border. denmark has drawn a line and the bridge behind me they have put checks to stop and search anyone coming from sweden after copenhagen has seen more than a dozen explosions in the city this year alone the danes blame it on rival gangs mostly from sweden and hoping that these checks will put an end to it the explosion at the tax agency and the double killing in her leave are examples of the serious crimes that can flow across the border from sweden we will not accept to counter the threat of serious crimes by the crime we are now strengthen in production of

the border with sweden by introducing temporary controls and strengthen police efforts in the area then mark and sweden are both e.u. and area members the or is on bridge used to be a free passport bridge for nearly 60 years but not anymore for at least 6 months it is this bridge that the danish authorities believe perpetrators crossed into denmark causing all the explosions. but as bombings become a worrying trend in the usually safe country here in sweden criminal gangs are on the rise according to official statistics there have been $38.00 more explosions this year than 2018 but it's only the explosions gun related crimes are fast becoming a concern to during the ninety's the average were 4 per year now nearly 40 and the

public puts these incidents down to immigrants but the teligent chief says it is not correct to link newcomers to criminal organizations in sweden they do not they . make an official counts of who says who is actually an immigrant so in sweden they do not know this but. we make these counts in denmark and we can see that a lot of those who are. they are 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants the people who are arrested who are from sweden it does these attacks in copenhagen are also 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and of course it would be normal to show that if there's a problem with the 2nd and 1st generation immigrants and that is social why would do this in denmark because we have to know. what the problem is before we can do

anything about it from the famously soft approach that once worked well 'd in sweden the government has gone a 180 degrees by announcing a plan allowing police to have greater stop and search powers but also making it easier for them to search suspects houses and access their devices and all this with the backing of sweetest officials we welcome that denmark is taking action to fight crime in the orissa and region i have respect for the danish government strengthening border control in order to keep criminals on a short leash the country of little mermaid bicycles and the label had its fair share of violence in the past in the ninety's this quiet country saw bombings and shootings by rival biker gangs but no checkpoints were introduced well whether you blame it on the migrant crisis or law and order's and europe are becoming real again eventually steps us for r.t. . a british university staff union has declared white people are able to

be black if they so wish you see you has a long history of enabling members to so far identify whether that is being black disabled o.b. g.t. or women. congress and further and high education conference's policy on gender identity has been developed over many years. this isn't the 1st time the idea of so-called trans racial ism or racial fluidity her surfaced. in you change your race if you ask rachel dollars are the white woman who spent the past 7 years claiming she's a black woman she'd probably say yes like ray said as a construct again as a fluid understanding ansley lennon has a reputation as a leading figure in british rock fare to the director was even award it a grant reserved for people of color i just want to play with just a little white and i asked him specifically i said you know are you we go we are you we go we white or are you biracial are you black or white he says i am biracial

i said is that what is on your birth certificate he did not answer your genders are determined by your chromosomes race is a social construct not a matter of genetics judge do is simply taking that wisdom to its logical conclusion born a white male named adam we lurch i do now identifies as a filipino woman and i think it's very important that the 2 lived experiences are treated distinctly and i am a transgender woman and i am not qualified to comment on race. how somebody identifies is primarily a matter for them and whether or not that is recognized by the legal system is an entirely different question i believe it's about lived experiences and it's important in my future trial and distinction between your live to experience and what the law and the state recognizes it's not for any other person to pass

judgment on the lived experience all the other if however one wishes to access for example services provided for a specific group of people that could them become an object matter where the state steps in. the u.s. president has intervened in the cases of american service personnel convicted or accused of war crimes in afghanistan and iraq donald trump pardoned 2 u.s. army officers and restored a navy seal's rank they were crossing party presidential candidates have attacked his decision. there's nothing pro-military about overruling military justice system to prevent it from delivering accountability for war crimes the president has again dishonored our armed services trumps intervention in the american military justice system to pardon service members accused or convicted of war crimes betrays the rule of law the values that make our country exceptional and the men and women who wear the uniform honorably he is not fit to command our troops. respond to

criticism from democrats it's not just the republican president to use pardoned atrocities skitter liberals as more and just let you know her report includes our new feature a q.r. code that you can use to get more background information on the story. a victorious election campaign or a platform of non intervention but don't trump is still juggling dwarves at home against fake news and the democrats and far away against tara so it's hardly surprising he has a soft spot for the dogs of war no not this one these ones. my

. these latest pardons can be added to the already bulging saw a labeled military activity with this use of his powers trump has sent a clear message of disrespectful or morality the military justice system and those in the military who are barred by the laws of war i would include the victims of these crimes but have no illusion he cares for them until a shameful trump might have been an outsider when he took the reigns in 2016 but his policy of whitewashing questionable u.s. military activity as a favorite white house past time previous administrations were also busy posturing up cia crimes and ducking accountability barack obama for example the very president who found the cia's tool to techniques went around doing some pardoning of his own giving to soldiers who talked to detainees to death a freepost best not to dwell on the past he said own words and. upwards for

those who carried out some of these operations within the 4 corners of. legal opinions or guidance that had been provided from the white house. i do not think it's appropriate for them to be prosecuted as a general deal i think that we should be looking forward and not backwards and apparently it doesn't matter whether you read or blue take george bush he was also pretty relaxed when it came to those secret cia silos and some believe our military and intelligence personnel involved and capturing and questioning terrorists could now be at risk per prosecution under the war crimes act simply for doing their jobs in a thorough and professional way this is unacceptable and while these soldiers might have been given

a get out of jail free card despite having been tried and convicted by a court condemned by international watch dogs and housing the blood of civilians on their hands i wonder if 2nd chance cards will be given so easily to those quoting out the crimes julian assange is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant with you we should be closed down probably and decisively but i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this gone beyond anything i am aware of what he leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service u.s. cyber warfare people should use wiki leaks for target practice it seems for u.s. officials there's still plenty up for interpretation and that is safer to be trigger happy than death to expose someone with just the click of your mouse. joan

bato from the united national antiwar coalition believes it's wrong the u.s. prosecute those who expose war crimes rather than i've seen commit them it shows that tells the world that the united states can be lawless with impunity in countries all over the world that the position was held by clinton it was held by bush it was held by obama and is now held by trump it's a position that can't be justified under any sense of justice and these people who deserve to be in jail these war criminals are kept out however people that expose the crimes such as julian assan george chill segmenting those are the people we go after and prosecute either trying to kill the messenger but they don't say anything about the message because they can't say that one word that he said put out through wiki leaks was was untrue it's not a very good policy push any company have an audience national don't get to check

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