britain's conservative and labor parties accuse each other of failing to prevent the london bridge attackers early release from prison the issue to debate. membership of any terrorist organization should have a life imprisonment that would resolve the. issue in china strengthen the ties by launching a strategic natural gas pipeline the power of siberia. and u.s. investigative journalism struggles to survive in the era of big corporate media and powerful political plans as a reporter claims hillary clinton cut him off when he started investigating hollywood producer harvey weinstein sex offense.

and thanks for joining us assuming this is. dozens of people convicted of terrorism offenses in the u.k. who were released early on their cases reviewed that's according to the prime minister boris johnson it comes after it was revealed friday's london bridge attack had himself been released. any other legal are in the same he will lose out and there was no in this has nothing to do with parole there was nothing to do with probation and eagerly same's legally there are 3 but this is really become a talking point over the weekend since that attack on friday on london bridge towards the side where the city of london financial district is now of course the person involved

a small car and somebody who had already been found guilty of involvement in a plot to blow up the london stock exchange but then was released as part of a scheme and there were attempts to try to rehabilitate him and put him back into society if you will that it was actually one of those events which were organized for not just him as a convicted terrorist but other acts offenders to attend and it was that of reportedly that he decided to launch his attack an attack killing 2 people in injuring 3 others on the london bridge and as i said that has over the weekend sparked a number of political accusations back and forth about who's to blame for this terrorist being on the streets these people darron should never ever be let out of prison unless we're absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus people don't want history lessons after this terrorist atrocity what people want is to put

victims 1st and keeping communities safe 1st and if he had been sentenced under our rules he would still be in jail today no terrorist should be released without it being properly assessed whether or not they still pose a risk to the public school and we have indeed automatic early release for prisoners sentenced to more than 4 years in prison so there's plenty of political fallout as the different parties point the finger at each other the conservatives try. say that this early release scheme is ultimately the responsibility of the labor party while the labor say well firstly it was a conservative government under which this terrorist was released but also that the conservative budget cuts impacted policing and meant that terrorists like this it's much harder to find now johnson over the weekend has been advocating for

a policy of locking terrorists up and throwing away the key if you will even his own foreign secretary dominic robb confirms that the conservative party have a policy of a minimum 14 years sentence for dangerous terrorists and there's no guarantee that even would have made a difference in this case because this. was sentenced to 16 years and was the least early so there will be those who are calling for that to be changed while the leader of the labor party jeremy corbyn is arguing that each case should be taken on its merits and that you can't apply a blanket scheme all around so many different opinions as we head towards a poll in just 10 days now that will decide everything from meet the u.k.'s education and environment policy and also how to fight crime and terrorism and we've got the issue of early release of 4 debate. since september the 11th we've

released $500.00 terrorists who have committed acts of terrorism in the u.k. that these 2 men a and clearly we need to toughen up our laws but what's at the end you've got to remember that these people are quite quite so unusual of whilst we need to control them we also need to be very clear that we cannot infringe on civil liberties. because they are so important because these post isis post liberal post in lighten if you like terror attacks happening on home soil they've often come home grown terrorists radicals criminals whatever you like to call them but they have been institutional failures the state security apparatus can do better should do better and isn't doing better and we have to ask questions why i remember the police the security services the courts are attempting to prevent these violent terrorists from attacking this country the question here is what are we doing about those people who are involved in terrorist organizations but have not yet committed

serious terrorist offenses i say membership of any terrorist organization should have a life imprisonment or if that would resolve the what do you mean member should know even know who carries it but i mean how hard are terrorist and friends on drawdown going on there you know be under its own country i don't have a terrorist organization i've got no problem on terrorism the hard line thing to saying like throw away the key or terrorism should terrorists go to prison forever that's absolutely fine you know or even open up a dialogue on is capital punishment appropriate some people in some cases ok however what we have to do is ply apply fairly across the board if we are allowing entrapment cases where people are sent to syria and then they come back we reduce their citizenship we transduced their rights you talk about civil rights and human rights what about the bethnal green schoolgirls who at 14 or 15 were transported to syria if you join a terror organization we have to find out why we have to tackle these issues properly we're talking about people going to syria. or going to training camps in

pakistan people are engaging in acts of terror whether that be fund raising where that be terrorist training or whether it be actual acts of terrorism in terms of violence those sorts of people should no more be treated reasonably than somebody who turns around and says i only murdered this woman because it was a crime of passion the law needs to change membership of terrorist organizations to hold a maximum penalty of life in prison and then judges can choose whether that much cement is appropriate on a case by case basis that to me seems sensible. u.s. journalist claims his friend and former boss hillary clinton distanced herself from him over his investigation of the now disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein it's remarkable how quickly even people with a long relationship with you will turn if you threaten the centers of power or the sources of funding around them ultimately there are lots of people out there who operate in that way they're beholden to powerful interests and if you go up against

those interests you become radioactive very quickly ronan farrow their work to clinton special advisor for years including while she was secretary of state harvey weinstein meanwhile donated tens of thousands of dollars to clinton's 2016 presidential campaign before the sexual assault scandal unfolded auntie's donald caught a looks at how investigative journalism in general is becoming harder in the age of big corporate media. what often portrays investigative journalists as knights in shining armor risking it all to protect the truth is that legal what is it is that we do it for a living. if we don't. leave the country. i wish to do my job you know. you're going to sit here and we can tell this story we're going to tell it right and reality though snooping around the lives of influential people could have serious repercussions it could land you in trouble even if we're talking about hollywood royalty like ronan farrow he was essential to

the new yorker's 2017 investigation into rape allegations against harvey weinstein the same one that received a pulitzer prize and through the me too movement into the mainstream before his journalism career farrow worked as a lawyer at one point serving under the then secretary of state hillary clinton as her advisor for global youth issues they made quite the team that is until farah began digging into weinstein's dirty laundry did you feel pressure from hillary clinton on and her staff raised concerns about the fact that i was working on this story about one of her most significant donors that they had bungler of hollywood money not to mention pharaoh's original collaborator and b c refused to publish the weinstein revelations all together but this isn't even the only major story that the mainstream media big wigs have tried to smother a.b.c. anchor amy roebuck recently went public about her investigation into geoffrey epstein's pedophile operation which was killed by the network 3 years ago it was unbelievable

what we had we had everything. and i tried for 3 years to get it on to no avail and now it's coming out and i think well of revelations what we had it was unreal there were going back to you know. get. your shit so is that it have the rich and powerful become so strong. that investigative journalism has no place in the 21st century you probably can't reach. you know 1020000000 people with investigative stories that really attack it wealthy and powerful when you do investigative journalism which i do for a career in a living and you bump up against the rich and powerful especially if if your publisher is friendly with those who are rich and powerful you. you know you pay a price you either are taken off the beat and given something else to do like right

of it you areas or you are you know in the worst case you're fired. or you're sort of let know that you know your career is not going anywhere there are so you should look elsewhere. for. the beijing of launched a 3000 kilometer pipeline the power of siberia that will carry russian natural gas to china. today we're marking a significant truly historic moment you also need for the global energy market but for us china and russia. our relations center in the new era and i hope russia and china will do more projects of this current projects that will serve the interests of both countries and benefit told people. the.

line took 5 years to build and it's the biggest russian gas investment project to date ranko serve reports from beijing the 3000 kilometer long power siberia gas pipeline and has been commissioned by russia and china on a monday the ambitious project has united the northern hemisphere 2nd largest gas producer along with the world's 2nd largest gas consumer market economic unity and friendship between neighbors or russia and china.

and for china it couldn't be more timely the country has been using increasing amounts of gas and it's a trend that looks set to stick around after. well usually this is a major issue she projects a bilateral energy cooperation it is of great significance to deepening corroboration between the 2 countries and integrating our interests now russia is also quite pleased with this project when they show them we are starting with the biggest restructuring projects in the world there will be nothing bigger in the sphere for years to come because this is not about breaking records this is an extremely important project force russia and china but we all know that energy is a stake it's all fake and there is no pleasing everyone especially when someone's

been cut out of the deal now the world's largest producer and consumer of natural gas the united states is now perhaps regretting driving to outcast countries together after waging an economic war with one and slapping sanctions on the other the us ongoing trade war with china has driven beijing's consumption of america's flagship liquefied natural gas right down to gas like no other apparently this one has a uniquely american flavor increasing export capacity from the freeport liquefied natural gas project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving america's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy china and russia as energy corp is a double whammy for the united states which is also seeing some of its other gas consumers surging their backs on it in a matter of months and all their energy pipeline north stream soon will start

flooding europe with russian gas at a faster cheaper and greener rate that is american alternative washington that must be scratching his head at how some european leaders could shun its uniquely flavored gas in favor off a closer ties with moscow despite its best efforts to convince them otherwise we're taking germany were rejecting the french would take a vote with a specially. numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where the thing is or dollars into the coffers of russia that's one of the concerns that president trump has about north stream to why your would voluntarily itself even more to russian energy supplies and we make a tough case about ensuring that germany doesn't become dependent on russian energy we don't want europe's energy supplies to be depended on platter mere putin hong kong based political scientists joseph chang told us why this is

a win win project for both russia and china this is significant for both china and russia china even eans a lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use and as he salsas from the ease ethic and so on to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means that it is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market in support of the development of russian far east and eastern siberia in russia ok we'll take a short break now but with more news in just a moment. almost

seemed wrong. but i. just don't hold. anything. to shape out these days because after. engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. as labor has spent of mollusc in america and the average income for americans hasn't budged at all in 2030 years because they were neutered from their ability to compete for capital labor has no seat at the table labor has no seat at

the central bank labor has been abandoned the jobs have been shipped overseas wall street now gets all the crap they get 100 percent of the capital every dollar printed by the fed goes directly to wall street bypasses labor bypasses way the. french magazine charlie hebdo which came to global attention over its characters of the prophet muhammad competitor assist the channel of the friends to nazi propaganda on 2 fronts requested the right to respond in the publication however a paris court has rejected the move and taylor discussed the issue with really for trying. r t france has been locking horns with charlie of dough in a legal battle for quite a while now so how's that for the line of thought by the authors of this year's february edition of sharlee dome our france is filthy propaganda because it's loved

by the yellow vests which is the protest movement from the nightmares of the french government but it's not just filthy propaganda propaganda that's as bad as that of nazi germany so this comparison with nazi germany was the red line for the r.t. france management but all they wanted to happen is to be able to use their right to respond all they wanted is for charlie of dough to find space in the next edition of their magazine for the statement to be published well and technically french law is supposed to be on our side in this case however the magazine ignored artie's demand then the management of our channel in paris filed a lawsuit and made came the verdict from the court which wasn't in our favor r.t. then appeal the appeal was rejected now there's another appeal pending on what

was wrong and can give us some more to tell not while we understand that the magazine is famous for its cartoons yes there were a lot of green cartoons because of the color of our logo and then ways to try and copy some soviet style posters with one of them featuring a topless man writing a bear that's clearly a reference to vladimir putin some may see this as funny others may not but what was definitely not funny is the text after the idea that artie's love to buy the yellow vest protesters as i've said came this. then you should know them on the head of our image went to r.t. from to frederick to the show band from banning where he chatted with emmanuel told about the yellow vests the only criticism he was embarrassed by the very name of

the channel russia today a name that makes it clear where its funding comes from the fortnightly magazine signal published by the command in occupied countries did the same when it gave column space to coax and ferragamo this appearance of normality at one end of the telescope is essential to the success of the propaganda operation but this was basically r t being put in the same camp as the signal magazine which was something that was recognized during the years of world war 2 as a particular tool that nazi germany was using in the occupied countries to spread their fascist ideas you mentioned they had a fast protest as they really are to france's west. well let me just put it this way the french officials may like it or not the mainstream french media audience may like it or not but the coverage of the yellow vest protests by r.t. france was extensive and this led to these kind of scenes i need to show

you. most surely we may speculate whether this is a coincidence or not that the french president emmanuel macron has a problem with the yellow vests we know that he has a problem with r t we were denied access to the press events at his office at his residence and now charlie abdo has a problem with r t as well the french court has a problem with r t well again probably no coincidence but clearly all of this is a sign that our team. he has occupied a certainly in france. wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to take part in new legal proceedings but this time as a witness a spanish court will question the whistleblower in a case against

a private security firm that allegedly spied on a sandwich during his asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london and also possibly distributed the footage and audioboo to rules to 3rd parties including the cia some videos have been previously leaked by the newspaper and was recorded both video and audio of the meetings that really unhealed with his lawyers. what is claimed the company was instructed to spy on a scientist conversations with his lawyers in particular when they were drawing up his defense strategy to avoid extradition to the united states the company itself has commented on the accusation saying the even though it can't provide details about its actions at the embassy ethical and moral rules were violated. sanjay just to bring it today is currently being held in london's belmarsh prison he's there serving a 50 week sentence for breaching bail separately he's fighting a u.s. extradition request over wiki leaks publication of classified information on

american political and military dealings the combined charges could learn to make 175 year jail sentence. i can speak now to the former consul of the ecuadorian embassy in london who was that there at the time when julian assange was we've spoken previously about this good to have you back and i remember you commenting on the belief that the audio and video recordings had made it to us. u.s. sources let's put it that way how specific can you be how much do you know what did you suspect at the time of where what was being recorded was going. well listen defunct embers who are sort of veil. by this funny kompany. contractor they call them government we suspected all along on on and on from the very beginning julian never trusted our company dick with dorian diplomas in the

embassy were quite concerned about their activities of that company but we didn't know we didn't know that they were recording and spying for a 3rd party they were supposed to be protecting the embassy. personnel protecting the political as he and therefore you need to use c.c.t.v. cameras into your camera sticks to your cameras we didn't know that they were recording old your conversations we didn't know that they were basically at some point dealing with a 3rd party it up aren't really united states of america up aren't there. itself so to learn and taoists. the information was given to the america is is shocking frankly yes if these allegations are proven to be true would that be enough reason do you think for the british government not to hand the songs over

to washington. well there are many many reasons why they shouldn't hand julian assange. to washington but this certainly is in breach of. certain protections that everybody is entitled to everybody is entitled to have privileged conversations with its lawyers for example and we know for certain that julie our sanch meetings with his legal legal team. recorder we know that even documents from his lawyers were copied and photographed by the security companies in charge of the embassy so. darts in of reason of course to oppose the extradition because from that reality is clear that there is no argue process that he's persecutors where all alone all

alone gathering information you noted to build a case against him and that that's no long form of course not do you think at this point that the songes extradition to the u.s. is 1st accomplis or any way of avoiding it at this point. i keep cold for the. british judicial system at the very end we'll. look after the summer any of these countries we know that day between the u.s. the us and the u.k. that is what they call the special relationship a state in these 2 countries even into illegal wars hand by hand and when it comes to these issues there's not much so anybody in the international policy of the

united kingdom high ever i hope that the pressure from the civil society in this country but also international human rights organizations freedom of a stretch organizations even the media will pressure against that extradition because it will be beri beri and dangerous precedent for any journalese on the wharves it will be will be discussed as for freedom of expression so i hope that the extradition will be stopped that's my hope for the pleasure to speak to you once again appreciating is the inside track on events though the ecuadorian embassy in london is my guest the former consul to the embassy there thank you my pleasure. brigid right up to date this is r.t. international updates on our top stories coming your way 30 minutes time.

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