most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dog. it's conservative and labor parties accusing each other of failing to prevent the london bridge attack is early release from prison but the issue of the debate. membership terrorist organization should have a life in prison but it would resolve the. pressure in china strengthen their ties by launching a strategic natural gas pipeline dubbed the power of siberia. and u.s. investigative journalism struggles to survive in the era of big corporate media and powerful political clowns as a reporter claims hillary clinton cut him off when he started to investigate

hollywood producer harvey weinstein's defense. team to national great to have you with us. dozens of people convicted of terror offenses in the united kingdom who were released early said to have their cases reviews that's according to prime minister boris johnson comes after it was revealed friday's london bridge attack been released. how many other people are in the same he would show lot out and there was no in this has nothing to do with perot there was nothing to do with probation and eagerly the same as legally there are probably about 70 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. somebody who had already been found guilty of involvement in

a plot to blow up the london stock exchange but then it 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 offense 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 i think these people should never ever be let out of prison unless we are absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus people don't want history lessons are sure this is a troll city if you had been sentenced under the old rules he would still be in

jail today no terry should be released without being properly assessed whether or not they still pay to the public in scotland to have ended up domestic and released from prison or 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 trying to 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 boris 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 man 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 during the corbin is arguing that each case should be taken on its merits and that you can't apply a blanket scheme all round 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 we put the issue of early release for debate. since september the 11th we've released 500 terrorists who've committed acts of terrorism in the u.k. that these 2 men a and clearly we need to toughen up our laws brought at the end you've got to remember that these people are quite quite 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 lighton 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 attack in 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 membership no even

know who carries it but i mean how are you lot buses are not terrorists and friends that are on drawdown going on there you know beyond radio 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 reasonable 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 needs 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. the us journalist claims his friend and former boss hillary clinton distance 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 there were times clinton's 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 on his donald quarter looks at how investigative journalism in general is becoming harder in the age of big corporate media. ali would 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. we don't. leave the country. i wish to do my job you never want to see your gas tank 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. years ago 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 and 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 write 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 so you should look elsewhere. moscow and beijing have launched a 3000 kilometer long pipeline the power of siberia that will carry russian natural gas to china to india 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 the sky and projects that will serve the interests of all countries and benefit tell people.

in the pipeline to 5 is the building is the biggest russian gas investment project yet reports from beijing. the 3000 kilometer long power off us 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. this is a major strategic project for bilateral energy cooperation it is of great significance to deepening incorporation between the 2 countries and integrating our interests now russia is also quite pleased with this project. we have started 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 for this russia and china but we all know that energy is as 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 through outcasts

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 to 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 were to take a vote of these countries and numerous other countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia with it paying beers and dollars into the coffers of russia that's one of the concerns that president trump has about north stream to why your would voluntarily tie 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 own bikes political scientist joseph chang told us why this is a woodwind project both russia and china. this is significant for both china and russia for time no means

a lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use energy sources from that we don't ease africa and so on to the russian side bierria it is also significant for russia because it means there is less and under european 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 with developed the egypt pacific market support of the development of russian far east and the area in russia. 5 people including a mother who had just given birth have reportedly been killed by u.s. drone in afghanistan's border province of course the missiles targeted a car carrying 3 taliban fighters who were killed along with 2 civilians including

the mother afghan officials say the attack happened late on friday night or early saturday morning the pentagon says the incident took place on thursday adding that it knows about the collateral damage we are aware of the allegations of civilian casualties and working with local authorities to determine the veracity of these claims afghan civilian casualties from aerial operations in 2019 have reached the highest in a decade almost 900 civilians have already been killed in the year to september 3 quarters of the casualties are from nato led coalition airstrikes according to the un assistance mission in afghanistan to stop the war coalition says chris 9 and believes these strikes have to stop. well i mean the strategy that has been pursued in afghanistan really since the very beginning in 2001 has been a complete disaster is an 18 year war that is actually appears to be getting

worse now we've reached the highest level of civilian casualties for probably a decade this year in afghanistan these kind of attacks need to stop and to win for there to be a negotiated solution which is so desperately needed for the people in afghanistan who suffered so many years of war and not just from the west but the previous wars a 3035 years of permanent warfare has absolutely devastated the country and it needs to end really for there to be any kind of progress any kind of possible solution for the people of afghanistan. we can 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 the private security firm that allegedly spied on the sides during his asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london and also possibly distributed the footage an ordeal materials to 3rd parties including the cia and videos have been

previously league by the newspaper. recorded both video and audio of the meetings that really unhealed with his lawyers. claim 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 even though it can provide details about its actions at the embassy no ethical or moral rules they say were violated. the terms of service currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he's serving a 50 week sentence for breaching bail separately he's fighting us extradition request over wiki leaks publication of classified information on u.s. political and military dealings the combined charges could blunder potentially with a 175 year prison sentence former consul of the ecuadorian embassy in london told

us that he's been shocked by the revelations defunct embassy was sort of veil. by this company. contractor they call them government we suspected all alone but we didn't know that they were recording and spying for a 3rd party so to learn and us the information was given to the americans is is shocking 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 and doubt that it's no longer full of course not. french magazine charlie hebdo which gained global attention over its characters of the prophet muhammad has compared our sister

channel r.t. france to nazi propaganda to france requested the right to respond in the publication however a paris court rejected the move. to discuss the issue without easily patrik. 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 are 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 can you give us someone 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 loved by the yellow vest protesters as i've said came this the new schneiderman the head of our image went to r.t. from to frederick tithers show band from banning where he chatted with emanuel talked 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 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 are 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. more surely we may speculate whether this is a coincidence or not it's that the french president emanuel 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 r.t. has occupied a certainly in france. the retail giant amazon is facing a backlash from the memorial so after it offered to sell a range of christmas ornaments containing images of the former concentration camp the products of since been removed christmas tree decorations trinkets bottle openers they all bore images of the camp but morial called the items rather disturbing and disrespectful and asked for them to be taken down something amazon's not to blame i think or hope that this isn't a deliberate listing rather a computer grabs images and puts them on generic ornaments if god forbid someone were to purchase them then they would make one what's wrong with people who would

buy that let alone make it looking at their products i believe it's computer generated and they haven't realized what image is being used we have asked amazon to comment on this story will bring us any response we receive we also spoke to marshall man who is a newsweek columnist and editor of history central dot com he believes that the company needs to police its platform more. the issue with amazon is it has thousands i think actually millions of merchants who they sell for on their platform and the problem amazon has is they do not do a very good job of policing those merchants and so therefore anything can appear on their platform and they do not do a very good job of finding those things and removing them quick enough it's a similar problem they have with all sorts of counterfeit goods as well so you know it's a general problem with all these big high tech giants with their biggest concern is growth growth growth and they don't spend the effort of policing their own platforms as necessary and this is

a perfect example that it shouldn't require people speaking to amazon to take it down amazon has enough computer capacity and everything else to were able to found this by themselves and not allowed it to appear on their platform at all but they didn't spend the effort to make sure it doesn't happen. to national don't get it also on facebook and twitter and you can find more stories if you head to a website on the dot com. the be. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be friends with. the 2 like the blue cross that's what will befall the 3 of them all can't be good that the but i'm interested always in the waters about how this. case should.

trump on hong kong protecting democracy or more meddling in the internal affairs of china also can nato as european members reimagine the alliance and more terror on the streets of london. john after a time they were going underground as leaders of the nato military organization launched 70 years ago to wage war with the u.s.s.r. meet in london after one of its key members described nato as current the experiencing brain death coming up in the show the man who once ran nato on the

responsibility of the secretary general to galvanize nato nations against the cvs enemies and the silence of others we speak drove above the director of an award winning film about the brutal legacy of nato nations support for fascism you know not says i'm a dictatorship all around the world all of them all coming up in today's going underground the 1st as donald trump arrives in london ahead of tomorrow's nato summit let's go straight to rome to speak with nato is former deputy secretary general as andro minute to reserve thanks so much for the deputy secretary general you were actually acting secretary general for a while about the conference the bulletin of atomic scientists when estimating the threat of earth's destruction due to nuclear war claims with 2 minutes to midnight you think something like that will be on the minds of nato and leaders this week while i don't think so why do why you ask me this question on against altenburg is saying that nato faces a bigger and bigger threats and that in fact nato has to be prepared for

coverage ations theoretically with russia and with china well you know. don't train that are more and more frets i mean the the world is confused but rather stable i mean in terms of frights as far as i know and so you know russia i've tried out they are why the yacht i bade i don't fit in there are actually menacing and. frightening made on. more than they did befall so i don't see this raising of threats let's put it that way so you don't agree with nato secretary general against bolton even saying that he wants to nato to make space an operational domain enjoying the success of nato missions while you know it depends what you mean by that you know it is not a day that he's agree with the secretary general is that i say that nato is always adapting you know it has been adopting since the end though to cold war you know and so it's.