britain's conservatives and the labor party's accuse each other of failing to prevent of the london bridge attackers early release from prison we put the issue up for debate. and membership of any terrorist organization should have a life in prison but thought would result but what do you mean. nothing. fattens russia and china strengthen their times by launching a strategic natural gas pipeline dubbed the power of siberia. and the us investigative journalism struggles to survive in the era of big corporate media and powerful political plans as a reporter claimed hillary clinton cut him off when he started investigating

hollywood producer harvey weinstein sex offenses. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our t. international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us and dozens of people convicted of terror offenses in the u.k. who were released early are said to have their cases reviewed as according to prime minister boyce johnson this comes after it was revealed friday friday's london bridge attacker had himself been released early. or in the same he was out and there was no in this it was nothing to do with perot there was nothing to do with probation it's how many legal the same is legally there if. this is really become a talking point over the weekend since that on friday on london. bridge towards the

side where the city of london financial district is now of course the person involved. was 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 offense which were organized for not just him as a convicted terrorist but other acts offenders to attend and it was 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 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 the 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 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 knocking. 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 of moves at 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 ukase 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 $500.00 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 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 are you lot buses are not terrorists and friends on drawdown going on there you know. 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 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 go into 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 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. to us a 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 a lot 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 worked as clinton's special advisor for years including while

she was his secretary of state harvey weinstein meanwhile donated tens of thousands of dollars to clinton's 2016 presidential campaign before the sexual assault scandal unfolded or his donald quarter comments now on how investigative journalism in general is becoming harder in the age of big corporate media. ali 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. we don't. leave the country. i wasn't doing my job you know. you're saying 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

yorkers 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 if they had bungler of hollywood money not to mention pharaohs 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 well everything. i tried for 3 years to get on a veil and now it's coming out examples were well of revelations already had a person on rail i remember. 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 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 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. jordan yeah today we're marking a significant truly historic moment that 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. that.

the. pipeline took 5 years to build and is the biggest russian gas investment project yet from our culture of reports now 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 she 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 restructure the 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 su outcasts countries together after waging an economic war with one and slapping sanctions on the other the us ongoing trade war with. 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 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 were to take a vote of these countries and numerous other countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia with a thing that is of the 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 dependent on what a mere putin hong kong based a political scientist a just of chiang told us why this is

a win win project for both russia and china. this is significant for both china and russia china even sun law in terms of energy security in terms of a civic asian and as he saw it says from there you go east africa and so on to 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 all you and natural gas is 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. a u.s. drone attack in afghanistan has left 5 people dead including 2 civilians we will

bring you the full story right after a short break stay with us. join

me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back you're watching international live from moscow no 5 people including a mother who has 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 but the pentagon disputes that account. 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 every just the highest in a decade up through september this year almost 900 civilians were injured or killed and 3 quarters of the casualties are from nato led coalition airstrikes is according to the u.n. assistance mission in afghanistan to stop the war coalition's chris nineham has more. 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 these kind of attacks need to stop 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 not just from the west but the previous wars

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 a possible solution for the people of afghanistan. british athletes have allegedly been encouraged by team doctors to have their thyroid checked which could reportedly lead to speculation about the use of thyroid medications to boost athletic performance medications for hypothyroidism such as l. o l are not banned by the world anti-doping agency however the drugs have been shown to add aid in weight loss and recovery between sessions boosting testosterone enabling athletes to train harder suggestion to use thyroid treatments was made by a current anglin football team dr robert. verity who was at the u. k. athletics chief medical officer between 20132016 initiative was supported by chuck

a very tase replacement as head of u.k. a nowell polak he took over in 2016 and is still in the position. to comment on the recent allegations and of course we'll let you know if they get back to us professor of sociology at aston university ellis cashmore thinks water is anti-doping code is now full of loopholes. it's an expanding gray zone because up to say 3 years ago people believe that the drugs issue in school was black and whites do is a found list of substances that you could not use if you did. you would face punishment and then there were other drugs which were perfectly ok to use no we're not so sure i think they were introduced when people said that under certain therapeutic condition you can use drugs that are on the list. of the world's attention as we know the policy through all 4 years has been on russia.

just go on and you where else it's deflected everyone's interest away from doping it's been going on practically every country where it's cool. meanwhile russian athletes are awaiting what his decision on new sanctions it has proposed against the country moscow could face a 4 year old pick ban and be stripped of the right to host major international events including its part in next year's euro football championships that is after what i found alleged tampering with key laboratory data earlier this year water was finally given access to the data in question held in a moscow lab the move came as part of the conditions for the russian anti-doping agency's reinstatement russian athletes were banned in 2015 from competing under their national flag with some athletes stripped of their medals that is after water accused russia of a massive state run doping program to cheat at the london and sochi olympics now want to suspects russia of tampering with the laboratory data the international

olympic committee has recommended the toughest measures against the alleged perpetrators however it stressed it opposes a blanket ban of athletes and lays all responsibility on the russian authorities well a new r.t. documentary has been looking into the doping controversy. thought the whole doping in russia thing was over for get it russian outlets eligibility for the international competitions at stake this includes events like the to kill in pics and the fee for world cup in qatar. and. the allegations against off and many other russian olympic athletes were based on the testimony of just one person that person played a key role in the doping scandal which unfolded after the games and so she and it seems he also has

a hand in what's happening now when for lots of people what do they stop. in 2015 rushing fled to the united states taken a copy of the database with it to use it as proof of tampering with doping test results since stand water has had a copy of database in its possession the whistleblowers database as they call it that was the copy of what i wanted to compare with the database kept in moscow at the anti-doping clap when looking at the 2 versions want to experts raise the alarm and once again russian support face the threat of total isolation. of the. new model. when want to compare the 2 databases. and the one from moscow identified

298 russian athletes who samples raised suspicion it sounds ominous but what exactly does it mean in russia's database the digit one it beares next. the names of $298.00 outlets but against only $29.00 in the moscow database. he's not shutting down and you will be. nearly there not on some. little boy was involved. and they didn't bother to go i actually thought of boy done that or i knew. who it could have been probably i did a couple of. the . filings to.

get the bill of wash up but at the lodge it. was the guys i saw. at the bill is still in the vicinity he made it clear as many of us are there is that yeah. you go out he goes to ya go out a war duke you got are you have no war you know because i just was at the when it's at the washer but. more of that documentary straight ahead this is our 2 international. thinking of getting it done the ones we got in here shows around why is he didn't know until he was trapped in this tiny little wired we don't need

a crate with him he will stir freaking out and he won't want to spread even anywhere near. breeding dogs i paged in the interview lane conditions on puppy farm 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 courtier the rain the snow the funder nothing they have no protection. to get you. to 2 kids a. across the u.s. cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and pet stores most of the puppies that are coming from this large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold and at stores even joined a good businesses are involved like agoa mom center there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding for so many days most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with

jobs don't buy dog. one else chose seemed wrong. but old bulls just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape out of this they become agitated and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. ok in the special case something we can be sure is reasonable to millions of. yeah the it doesn't look like the also if. you thought the whole doping in russia things was over forget it. or work up to or from the

group or he. was a model so that is. russian outlets eligibility for the international competition says its stake this includes events like the to kill him picks and the fee for world cup and guitar. bass a. patient in this clip said on the i mean that you know when you get one of those at the miami. just as it was 4 years ago the moscow anti-doping lab was at the center of this scandal. tampered with the doping samples database and what does greegor you have to do with it. and you know she's just went out the pool i mean you could ask me what he has to push on the shuttle you. don't have a filter so the polish on your doing is noble and. noble

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