britain's conservatives and the labor party's accuse each other of failing to prevent the london bridge attackers or early release from prison and put the issue up for debate. membership of any terrorist organization should be life imprisonment would result but what do you mean. russia and china strengthen their ties by launching a strategic natural gas pipeline to the power of siberia. u.s. investigative journalism struggles to survive in the era of big corporate media and powerful political clans as reporter claims hillary clinton cut him off when he started investigating hollywood producer harvey weinstein's.

international sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. dozens of people convicted of terror offenses in the u.k. who were released early are said to have their cases reviewed this is according to prime minister boris johnson it comes after it was revealed friday's london bridge attacker had himself been released early. any other legal are in the same he will show loud out and there was no in this has nothing to do with parole there was nothing to do with probation it's how many eagerly 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 and 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 at that of reports of the that he decided to launch his attack and 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 to medical 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 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. 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 have committed acts of terrorism in the u.k. that these 2 men

a and clearly we need to toughen up our laws but 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 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 a good person 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 things of 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 are 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 go into training camps in pakistan people are engaging in acts of terror whether that be fund raising whether

that be terrorist training or whether it be actual acts of terrorism in terms of violence those sorts of people should know more pretreated 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 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. for us journalists to claim his friend and former boss hillary clinton distanced herself from him over his investigation of the now disgraced a 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 a lot of people out there who operates in that way they're beholden to powerful interests and if you go up against those interests you become radioactive very quickly or running for worked as clinton special advisor for years including while

she was secretary of state every weinstein meanwhile donated tens of thousands of dollars to clinton's 2016 presidential campaign before the sexual assault scandal unfolded and artie's down quarter comments now on how investigative journalism in general is becoming harder in the age of big corporate media. hollywood 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 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 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. long 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 pipeline dubbed the power of siberia it will carry russian natural gas to china doing it 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 kind projects that will serve the interests of all countries and benefit tell people. that.

the pipeline took 5 years to build and is the biggest russian gas investment project yet artes of among cost off reports from beijing. the 3000 kilometer long power off 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 for. the she's a major strategic projects a 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 when this name we have starts 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 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 through outcasts countries together after waging an economic war with one and slapping sanctions on the other the us ongoing trade war with. dyna 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 guess 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 it's 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 that with moscow despite its best efforts to convince them otherwise were taking germany were rejecting the french would take a vote with a specially and numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia with a thing that is in dollars into the coffers of russia that's one of the concerns the president has about nordstrom to why europe 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 when a mere putin hong kong based a political scientist a 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 said a lot in terms of energy security in terms of diversification of use energy sources from the ease africa 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 isn't siberia in russia china has lab sanctions on a number of u.s. nonprofit organizations and also put any u.s.

navy visits to hong kong on hold the move comes in retaliation for some recent steps by washington which are viewed by beijing as hostile. indeed it may family sponsor america's unreasonable behavior the chinese government has decided to suspend all u.s. navy and afterwards visits to hong kong china will also impose sanctions on the national endowment for democracy national democratic institute for international affairs international republican institute human rights watch freedom house and other n.g.o.s are actively involved in the hong kong riots as to when it will end it depends on america's behavior. all this comes hard on the heels of trouble signing a new law last week the hong kong human rights and democracy act legislation when it sanction any chinese in hong kong officials believed to be involved in human rights violations in the special administrative region that decision was met with

a jubilation by hong kong protesters who swarmed outside the u.s. consulate waving american flags and saying the u.s. national anthem dr parkman wang at the university of bath or leaves the outcome in hong kong will be the opposite of what the west wanted. i think all mr trump restoring he's trying to increase. bargaining chips in this hand in trying to get a good deal with china and obviously ward china is doing is trying to do too tough on more measures on the whole called. unfortunates the hong kong looks like tools increasingly become a battleground between the u.s. and china condition and then i'm afraid to hong kong we are likely to be sick of flies because of the. confrontation between the newest china because hong kong has been very sensitive and has receiving a lot of foreign direct investment also from the u.s.

because try the chinese over all t. boone north just back down. through toughen up the measures so in this case i think the result will be just and timely and see it with what washington d.c. was already on really intended to do. u.s. drone attack in afghanistan has left 5 people dead including 2 civilians we'll bring you the full story after a short break this is art. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. high salacious community. are you going the right way or are you being

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drone in afghanistan's border province of cost the missiles that targeted the 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 but the pentagon says 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 $2900.00 have reached the highest in a decade up to september this year almost $900.00 civilians were injured or killed 3 quarters of the casualties are from nato led coalition airstrikes this according to the u.n. assistance mission in afghanistan now the stop the war coalition's chris 9 and believes that these airstrikes 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 it's 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 on these kind of attacks need to stop and to win for there to be a negotiated solution which he so desperately needed for the people in afghanistan who suffered so many years of war and not just from the west but the previous war was 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 possible solution for the people of afghanistan. to take part in a new legal proceeding 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 songe during his asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london and also possibly distributed the audio materials to 3rd parties including the cia some videos have been previously leaked by the newspaper. cameras recorded both video and audio of the meetings held with. what is claimed the company was instructed to spy on his conversations with his particular when they were drawing up his defense strategy to avoid extradition to the u.s. the company itself has commented on the accusations saying even though it cannot provide details about its actions at the embassy no ethical and moral rules were. currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he is serving a 50 week sentence for breaching bail separately he is fighting a u.s.

extradition request over wiki leaks publication of classified information on american political and military dealings the combined charges could land him a 175 year jail sentence a former consul at the ecuadorian embassy in london told us that he was shocked by the revelations. defunct embassy was sort of veiled. by this punish company. contacted they call in government we suspected all alone but we didn't know that they were recording and spying for 3rd party so. us the information was given to the americans is is shocking 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 that's no law of course not. the retailing giant amazon is facing

a backlash from the auschwitz memorial that is after it ordered for offered for sale a range of christmas ornaments containing images of the former concentration camp the products have since been removed and christmas tree decorations trinkets and bottle of war images of the camp the memorial called the items rather disturbing and disrespectful and asked for them to be taken down but some think amazon is 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 look an ad their products i believe it is computer generated and they have agreed of ice what image has been used. to comment on the story we'll bring you any response that we receive we also spoke with market

schuurman. who is a newsweek columnist and editor of history central dot com who believes that the company needs it to police its plan for 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 have required 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 it doesn't for me i'll be back in 33 minutes with more news this is our international. join me every thursday on the alec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. thinking of getting a. deal with. straps in the wired you don't need a crate with him he will just. freaking out when it's pretty even anywhere near. breeding dogs a humane conditions on i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in the cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the

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alone in a welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle 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. cross talking some real news i'm joined by i guess robert bridge he's an r.t. website writer also we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor at innocent me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine our gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let's go to marcus 1st in london let's talk about. the trump administration's agreement least tacitly to sanction the china over what's

going on in hong kong when something i just don't really seem to understand i mean are looking at hong kong i know that there's an enormous amount of inequality there that is. it's the responsibility of the hong kong government and it's a one country 2 systems so why all the arrow at beijing and of course we know the united states is cheering it on along with its western allies as an era tend to china go ahead marcus your thoughts well later anyone here is o'shea we've pikelets or can concludes that what is happening in hong kong or indeed what has been happening since the summer is concerts it is well planned and it is exceedingly well executed and it is only possible true to so cold all special services that we have to ask.