god i was like. it was. the headlines in r.t. a manhunt is underway for a soldier in thailand and went on a shooting rampage killing at least 20 people. also become this british couple accused of plotting the murder of their adopted son in india walk free for now you the u.k. high court has blocked extradition citing human rights concerns and french regulators slash 25000000 euro fine apple for making its software updates slow down older versions of the i phone.

i welcome you watching r c international now a manhunt is underway in thailand for a soldier who went on a shooting rampage killing at least 21 people and injuring many more in the past couple of hours the gunman was surrounded by security forces in the shopping mall car park in the city of korra at but he managed to flee the scene killing one serviceman in the process according to local reports all civilians have been evacuated from the building the massacre started on late saturday afternoon the sergeant title he shot his commanding officer at a military barracks before storming the shopping center opening fire on bystanders his motives are not known at this stage the gunman lifestream the shooting on social media and these videos were widely shared before being taken bam this is the moment terrified shoppers managed to escape. great. but.

we were scared and ran to the tour this to hide the gym trainer told us to hide so we all went in i heard the gunshots trying to stay calm the authorities will come and help you stay calm. i'm worried about you very much i'm outside the fortune building and i'm giving information to the authorities. trying to save your phone battery ok and take pictures and post them on facebook. he was searched girlfriend saying she had gunshots she told me there were gunshots. what did you tell her i told her to calm down that the authorities are coming that's all i can do the perpetrator has a heavy weapon as far as i know. well this is what we know about the gunman so far

he's been identified as a sergeant major in the thai army after killing an officer he stole military equipment in the vehicle the gunman then opened fire as several locations including put his temple and ended up in the shopping center political commentator on that he will check it gave us some context to the shooting. i learned has one of the very high homicide rates it is higher per capita than the united states and lately there is a huge donation there is a social densher in thailand income disparities through him and those prices are very high tide bad. realistically high as well which makes it very difficult for tens of millions of thais to actually sort of vive and so it is very common to see that. under the surface of politeness smiles there is

a lot of anger and frustration so anything can trigger the. reaction from the from the people. who are talking. about the soldier and. you know a person who has access to the guns this is. dangerous. cocktail if you wish. that the final result from the iowa democratic primary still remains unclear despite all of the results now being in party officials to spend a week trying to verify the long delayed figures following a technical glitch and many are questioning how the chaos was allowed to happen much the don't drop. democrats don't know what the hell they're doing was was. taking a. simple votes but they want to fix your healthcare system.

i went questions are raised over any election results in the us they all seem followed by pledges that it will be sorted quickly but it's kind of more pain now explains when it does happen in other countries washington's reaction can be very different. often the way we interpret events can be very subjective if something happens to someone else we see it one way but it happens to us we see it very differently let's compare the electoral confusion in bolivia last october to the electoral confusion in the us state of iowa last week in both situations an election took place and the results were delayed and then authorities said that some irregularities have happened throughout the collection of records over results the i would democratic party identified in consistencies in the data and used the redundant paper records to probably correct those errors there was intentional manipulation and serious irregularities the make it impossible to validate the

results originally issued by the bolivian electoral foresees in both instances the public spoke up and cried foul folks i don't know what is going on with the iowa democratic party and the slow trickle of results how many of the counties are having their results foolishly reported by the i.d.p. every county needs to release the results now the iowa caucus was rigged by mayor cheap pete pass it on. and in both instances the authorities agreed and said that the concerns had to be addressed what happened in iowa was unacceptable and the party chair has acknowledged that he's apologized for that and we have worked together over the last few days to fix the challenges i have decided 1st to replace every member of the supremum like total tribunal and 2nd to hold national elections to allow the

bolivian people to democratically elect a new government with new political activists except the similarities stop here in iowa a recount is being conducted to make sure the ultimate results are correct and in bolivia the military toppled the government and a woman who wasn't even a candidate in the election has declared herself to be the new leader. i see in the presidency with the middle of the fact in line with the constitution and pres to take all measures necessary to bring peace to the country. while many have declared what happened in bolivia to be a military coup the us secretary of state branded it as a transition to democracy we recognize the importance of believe us political transition to democracy in our hemisphere and we had mire the believe in people for standing up for their constitution their democracy and for free fair and transparent elections after morale a sled things have been pretty messy in bolivia one of my resigning so that my

opponents do not continue to persecute more socialist brothers. and. i'm wondering if the organization of american states as they were said in an election i want you to figure out what's what's going on where you know it's clear that in the case of believe me. you need a clean of the electoral discrepancies to justify any campaign to demonize our latest and then ultimately to overthrow him the loser why did they are against. you because he pursued policies that were projecting us domination of the region so the difference is that in the case of in the case of iwo the presumption is it's just a technical problem or you know there's nothing sort of sinister going on whereas in the case of the government that's all sided with washington all sides with on it

why it's a different standard so if a u.s. state has some electoral confusion we'll look into the matter and get it straightened out however if a socialist government that is friendly to russia and china has a mix up at the polls it's time to reduce the country to care. kaleb happen r.t. new york. the president of the philippines has threatened to rip up a longstanding military pact with the united states after washington cancelled a tourist visa to one of his close political allies over an anti drug crack them. to urge the u.s. to reconsider. c. but all. but go on the show merely i'm wondering you're just the 1st guy. in mean you're not the you know the. why are you

a better man may be british vision thing is a good woman. up all same time in or. the so-called visiting forces agreement has been in place since 1909 does allow u.s. troops to take part in joint training exercise in the philippines foreign affairs analyst richard hey danny and gave us his views on the dispute it. here is the president that very day is really angry at the united states not only because of the travel ban or visa restrictions imposed on solve these key allies but there are concerns that the united states might actually move forward with priest and other kinds of sanctions against the president himself down the road especially when he's out the power he's going to step down for anybody to so i think there was some complacency on the part of united states and the b.s.a. is indeed taken out that means the end of significant amount of american military aid to the philippines which amount to $1800000000.00 over the past 2 decades and

it's going to make it very difficult for them are going to operationalize because they'll be a base the software that allows for the operationalization of the hardware of the bilateral lines and you like to. have a nice night u.k. has refused to extradite a couple accused of ranging the murder of their adopted son in india shouting at can stash take as the story the old saying goes that no one is above the law but it seems that some people aren't subject to either a british couple adopted an 11 year old often poyan india and promised him a better life but now they're charged with the ranging his matter all for a lump sum of life insurance payout ringback.

ending place of impacting for over 2 years to get their hands on a couple but to no avail and now british high court judges have ruled they can't be extradited but not because the evidence against them isn't strong enough. i find very circumstantial primer free she case that ms dear mr a jogger acting together and with others committed the offense is settled above despite all this the u.k. won't send the back why well because of one crucial piece of indian legislation that means the package faces sentence of life without parole if convicted of double murder in the country which the united kingdom says would breach the human rights. i find that there are substantial grounds for believing that they would face a real risk of been subjected to treatment like a review of a life sentence which would be inhuman and degrading this would be a breach of article 3 the court's decision falls within the european convention on human rights but the ruling is raising concerns here in britain do we really want suspected child killers roaming the streets of london this is an absolutely crime

and i think many people would agree there needs to be the harshest of sentences if they are found guilty it is up to the indian legal system to decide on the appropriate penalty and we should not be standing in the way of justice being served for the victims but the decision to keep criminals here in the u.k. raises alarm bells as the concept of human rights even for those abusing them seems to provide a quick get out of jail free card the fact is here justice has been denied to the indian people that that process of a trial has been prevented because of the european human rights legislation when we're saying that they can't even stand trial because the possibility that they will receive what is called an irreducible life sentence in india means that the possible sentence violates their human rights what the british government is saying is that there is no assurance in place that these 2 people will not be treated in the same way as they would have been had they been arrested in india what we are saying to the indian government and to the good right to authorities is that your criminal justice system simply isn't good enough to try our citizens who was an

incredibly serious offense indian people cannot hold people to account under the terms of the justice system without the european and british courts saying you're justice isn't isn't good enough i think these cases show is that actually what it does is it creates a difference in treatment between european citizens and the rest of the world. and try to lay tis a vision battle with a 25000000 year i find it deliberately slowing down older versions of the i phone the country's competition and fraud watchdog says that i think owners were not informed that installing updates would lead. was slower device it also ruled apple was guilty of a misleading commercial practice by capping the performance of older models whose aging batteries couldn't handle an energy use apple has admitted to failing to inform customers they could simply replace their battery instead of buying a new device although apple has agreed to pay the fine he claims it wasn't trying

to make people upgrade to new things. well we now know in black and white apple business model got halfway through the story and my phone died i'd love to see that prime passed on to consumers i refurbished my battery last year which means 0 difference to performance outrageous. and i was yes but then you says that apple will be more concerned by the bad p.r. than the fine. i think the main damage to apple in this particular instance was a damage to its reputation when this story 1st came out back in 2017 and there was a couple that hurt apple fall more than i find that is equivalent to only about 55 minutes of revenue for the for these winds are not actually going to make a great deal of difference what we need to do is to ensure that there are laws put in place such as the right so repair laws are coming through that help people who

actually have to upgrade deathbird have to replace components and hopefully that'll mean at the end of the day we're all getting back to value i would like to see the battery prices coming down i'd like to see that price. but this is a competitive market and it will come to jobs that price people are willing to pay then that's the state of the market. you're watching are seen to national we'll have more news in the next story ingenious songe in a court case he spent playing just after the break. copper prices telling us about the globalization the dollar is asian population also the big thing the market tells us the cycles of the markets are telling us something that you don't hear in my stream media and that's always been the case

since markets are better it's our price precedes. you know world big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back to assay now there is a closed hearing taking place at the moment against a private security company accused of spying on cheating in the sonship the spanish court is deciding if the firm violate the privacy of the wiki leaks publisher spanish company you see global was hired to protect the ecuadorian embassy in london while a songe was living there last summer recordings of a songe from inside the embassy were leaked online now they gave have emerged at the company might have shared surveillance with the cia was so far the u.s. intelligence agency and ecuadorian embassy officials have declined to comment and the director of the global says all information regarding the case is confidential we did speak to jews on just lawyer about this he's been attending the trial he claims that the company shed thousands of documents at the cia. exists only when there is a large amount of evidence related to the work that the u.c. global company carried out while providing security services to the embassy the

company's e-mails indicate priority knowledge goals including mr assad his lawyers his doctors and ecuadorian diplomats themselves there was also evidence that they gave the gathered information to u.s. intelligence these are hundreds if not thousands of images of. documents on the visits of mr sands photos visas entry and exit stamps they also installed bugs inside the embassy one of them was placed on a fire extinguisher in the meeting room listening to voice recorded many hours of mr sanders meetings which led to reinforce the case mr sloan suspected that they were spying on him and started holding his meetings at the back of the building in the female restroom as soon as they discovered it they installed the microphones there. regina stange was arrested in london in april last year and served a sentence for skipping bail back in 2012 still though in british jail pending

a hearing on extradition to the us where he does face espionage and computer hacking charges which he focused on the publication by wiki leaks of thousands of classified military files in 2010 including this incriminating video of american troops in iraq if convicted a sanch could get a prison term of up to 175 years while the final stage of his extradition trial has been pushed back to may meanwhile songe just remain in belmarsh prison. was only recently removed from solitary confinement there after repeated to pay was by his legal team citing poor health he still faces tight restrictions on businesses while his lawyers also say that they themselves have found it difficult to make their client in an open letter last month dozens of legal leading medical experts warn the u.k. government too that the wiki leaks co-founder could die in prison we discuss the issue further with his lawyer. so instead i don't in this prison he's been kept in

very severe conditions during the day he spent little time outside his cell he is practically in isolation all this worsened his state of health recently the un special rapporteur on top judge mr mills meltzer visited mr sands with a team of doctors and found that such a situation considering his health could be described by legal authorities as torture. and french president has called for a more coordinated defense strategy following britain's exit from the menu macron said that europeans need to reduce their reliance on the us. i prefer the amount of the collapse of the i.n.f. treaty france hopes for more inclusive talks in which europe's voice and interests are taken into account in talks on a new instrument to assure strategic stability on our continent if it's blocked by some we won't stand still europeans cannot confine themselves to the role of

spectator to build the europe of tomorrow can't be on the american control any speech macron said that renewing arms control needs to be put back on the global agenda but he did rule out any further cuts to france's nuclear arsenal the country has previously reduce its warheads to less than $300.00 despite that they would be spending 37000000000 euros modernizing its arsenal between now and 2025 microns speech comes at a time when longstanding accords on limiting the growth of nuclear arsenals appear increasing risk with the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty having recently been killed off well signed by the us and the soviet union back in 1987 it did ban some shorter range and into intermediate range missiles but it collapsed on august the 2nd last year when the u.s. quit the treaty and then russia followed suit professor and political commentator john briggs believes europe doesn't need the u.s. to play a key role in u.k.

defenses. as a whole of americans in europe with lol but to see what does it mean to do arms controls with the americans who have no means of cash on them and the only means of pleasure that you'll have in jail be would be to leave needle and they'd let them do with the world if you don't want to intervene in the county thing you don't need americans it's as simple as no. one here if you only care we're going to do. it with those where they don't even need a defense because nobody's are taking them to the french army the biggest of all going to a doctor in germany. ok some will be. in brief now a mass brawl in a village in passing stand has left 8 people dead and dozens injured police arrested 47 people and seized 2 hunting rifles the fight ended up with the number of houses and cars being torched the motive of the arrest is not yet known but

still no relief to bushfires raging in australia aerial footage here to capture a wall of smoke filling the sky in southeastern state of victoria on saturday at least 31 people have been killed since the fires 1st began in september along with an estimated 1000000000 and animals around 10000000 hectares of land have been destroyed and in germany demonstrators took to the streets of money that we will turn this into germany and i was holding this new year congress protesters chanted slogans denouncing a lefty members as nazis and waving eligibility flags the congress came just 2 days after a nationwide outrage over a deal struck between the a.f.p. and the ruling social democrats over a key regional prime minister he's seen stepped down in the wake of the anchor. finally news of a special arrival because an orphan seal is being nursed back to health and simply disappeared after being discovered on the shows that the baltic sea is believed

that baby she's now being called lost her mother in a storm but we are pleased to say she is making a good recovery. x.i. things looking so fast i hear an aussie as usual we've got the headlines and more stories about how often.

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after a tense you're welcome to going underground through the lebanese embassy in london i'm here with ambassador rami water coming up with a show with britain looking to expose future would violate not only you but it's only sanctions when it comes to a trade deal with lebanon and after this week's u.k. armed israeli bombing of a nearby syria how stable is lebanon the 1st arab country to sign a post trade deal with the u.k. . thanks so much for inviting us here to the u.k. government it's trade websites and how does proudly the u.k. companies are going to benefit from your liberal economic system and growing u.k. trade links what is the scale of bilateral trade between britain and the. well to

have you thank you for for having me with you on trade i think we started from from a kind of modest but the potential as we're trying to work towards and seeing this relationship and we think that there are opportunities in the lebanese market for u.k. companies us for other. companies so we're trying to work on the we have. now a trade and boy prime minister is u.k. prime ministers trade and war who have been was been appointed the last july and we think that with him and with the other part months i cross h m g we can work on identifying these approach and a kind of one way the britain exporting to lebanon not much from lebanon over here it's not only exporting actually we're we're looking for a holistic comprehensive. trade and investment relationship.

we just signed a trade. chords for the post brags that. were we rolled over our association agreement with the e.u. we rolled it over bilaterally with britain but we opened some windows for further opening subsequently when the implementation phase of the with all agreement with the e.u. is over so we have many tracks on which we are we are working and i think we have a promising what could be a promising relationship in terms of trade investments services. along with of course cultural and political relationship you know quite a bit on culturally and to change between the 2 countries in the document what cultural interchange you have between lebanon and really well you know u.k. universities are becoming increasingly attractive for 4 lebanese students so we need.