more than $100.00 doctors from around the world signed a letter condemning the british government for its handling of the. case and claims he's been subjected to psychological torture while in prison. also revealed the young sex trafficking victim in the u.k. didn't receive any support from the authorities until the case ended up in the high court we hear from her lawyer. it's completely unacceptable that someone is so wrong and someone is so at risk of being trafficking was not provided to suborn the accommodation that is it desperately needed and after years of calls by politicians and the public facebook's regulation is boss mark zuckerberg presents a new oversight body for what stopped the world's most free social media.

hello good evening just on 9 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international now doctors from around the world have condemned british government over its handling of the case and claim that wiki leaks founder is under constant psychological torture while being held in prison more than $100.00 doctors have signed a joint letter urging the u.k. authorities to take action they also called on the straining government to intervene to protect its citizen it's the 4th doctor's letter since a sanch made his 1st court appearance when they noticed his bad condition. in our 2 documented the history of denial of access to health care and prolonged psychological torture it requested that the sons be transferred from belmarsh prison to university teaching hospital for medical assessment and treatment faced

with evidence of untreated an ongoing torture would also raise the question as to the son's fitness to participate in the u.s. extradition proceedings well next week a stanch faces an extradition hearing to the u.s. where he's been charged with hacking into pentagon computers and auto espionage ahead of it the current wiki leaks editor in chief along with 2 straining and pains came together to discuss what they believe is the inaction of the u.k. and the strain authorities. there's a political. but what's at stake is not just. blow through lots of crazy 175 years in prison the votes of those he's the future judas let's hope for the lose this is the greatest onto lose but. it is beyond belief that someone who is a search rife with an organization so bravely should be rawdon court facing extradition and sitting counsel based in one county called computer hacking it is

fully that this situation exists in the will among developed countries at this point in tar meanwhile the guardian newspaper has published a feature article on plans to tackle media repression by the british special envoy on press freedom clooney however one key detail has been omitted clooney slings to gina songe and his case in particular despite the fact is one of the highest profile cases of a journalist being persecuted in the country the guardian's article focused on clooney plans she proposed to sanction all those who participate in jailing journalists for their work including ministers and prosecutors something that hasn't happened in a songes case the article didn't even mention clooney was actually songes lawyer joining the swedish extradition proceedings against him in 2015 the mission has directed plenty of anger towards the guardian. congratulations are

in order to the guardian's patrick wintour who's managed to write a whole article on global media suppression without mentioning the phrase julian assange the foreign office will no doubt continue to be delighted the u.k. government requires julian assange looked up at the because still the us because he exposed war crimes the guardian publishes an hour to go on press freedom to mention this. unbelievably and unforgivably no mention of julian assange or during some broadcast neil clark believes that the government doesn't want to talk about nissan's case because it's too shameful when to the journalist apparently apparently we are not 100 percent sure but apparently didn't see the need to actually brace the the case of the most famous persecuted journalist in this interview about the persecution of journalists it's a massive elephant in the room it's quite extraordinary 'd how anybody could write an article about the persecution of journalists without mentioning julian assange

for the establishment this whole case now is a big embarrassment. and a staunch it's either someone who could be attacked or to be ignored as a place to be ignored a way to get talking about it in this context press that persecuted journalists is another person is another person you know good journalist being persecuted oh let's talk about other countries official enemy countries and that's fine but not what we actually got the guy just a few miles away down the road from us back up in jail for doing journalism. now vulnerable british woman who'd been repeatedly sex trafficked by drug gangs mr knight support from the british government until compelled by the high court the shocking revelation comes despite the u.k. claiming it leads the way in the fight against forced labor in here today as more. i think a claims to be a world leader when it comes to fighting modern slavery and people trafficking yet

if you take the story of this 22 year old woman that seems fall from the case. she was 1st registered as a victim of sex trafficking in 2019 and a professional should have been provided with safe refuge yet the home office failed to find any it's shocking really it's completely unacceptable that someone so vulnerable and someone so at risk every trafficking was not provided with the support to macc accommodation that they said desperately needed with no support from the government this young woman was drawn into a vicious circle once again it was in june 2019 that i was made a decision not

a crime as a potential victim of king not spending a legal obligation to provide her with adequate support and assistance fast agrees . the home office was underage to protect her. this is in spite of the fact that she has complex mental health health problems people who are. often do it because because of their experience it's so respectable that yes they were under. support but when the woman was ready to be discharged from the mental facility the home office claimed her mental state meant there was absolutely no west suitable to house her from the time and b. . the decision was made that she was a potential victim of trafficking up until january 2020 and the home was where where there was at least 3 instances agreed trafficking for the patterns of sexual exploitation i made the case. the hike or the time arkwright was being released to homelessness been discharged from hospital and the judge ordered that they must

report it would come to a shoot until further order officials have been vague to say the least in their comments on the case i was too difficult reforms of the national referral the hedonism for victims of modern slavery such as the introduction of new single component or thorazine are the launch of a digital referral form as sure victims get the support they need more quickly there's been constant criticism that all the government talk on ending modern day slavery does not match in practice accusations that funding and support for victims are clearly inadequate figures from $29000.00 confirmed that more than 2000 survivors of modern day slavery were given housing and specialist support but it's not enough according to come painters who claim that a lack of safe and specialised accommodation is in fact leaving many of the victims traumatized isolated and vulnerable to read trafficking the deer or tutor r.t. . facebook's boss mark zuckerberg has once again stated that big

tech companies need more state regulation his latest comments to come in an article in the financial times and they also come shortly after the social media giant announced its new independent oversight body however it is already raising questions over impartiality on quarter expects for years political scandals and government pressure to regulate content have been a thorn in facebook's side does not just about innovation you need regulation to get feasible going and then again what do we tell our constituents given what's happened here while we should let you self regulate i don't want to vote to have to regulate facebook. but i got i will as the social media giant strayed away from its roots of connecting friends and family over the internet and began playing politics to grow its influence things started to get a bit hairy for the company facebook's fight against so-called russian bots and up

targeting many accounts that had nothing to do with russia its campaign to flag political ads treat some organizations better than others and the army of fact checkers often seems more like a censor for certain political opinions facebook's critics are far from satisfied facebook's not just going to really trump but intends to reelect trump this is a global company that has huge influence in ways that we're only beginning to understand then there's george soros who even called for mark zuckerberg to be removed it seems facebook c.e.o. has dug a deep hole for himself we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a mistake and i'm sorry for it it was my mistake and i'm sorry this was a major breach of trust and i'm really sorry that this happened now he's calling for more serious regulation of social media content as for who should step up to the plate well zuckerberg wants to pass that buck on to someone else somebody knows

the need but it's all over the sides when we make decisions which is why we creating an independent oversight board so people can appeal for these books come to decisions the director proposed for the so-called independent board goes by the name of thomas hughes and he says he's fully on board with the human rights and diversity agenda. the oversight board is committed to protecting free expression and human rights its composition will be global in diverse and whilst there will be disagreement at times this diversity lies at the core of this important innovation that sure sounds nice but you have to wonder how hughes actually defines those ideas especially since he was the leader of a british angio called article 19 it's directly funded by the state department and the national endowment for democracy think tank which promotes regime change in countries washington isn't very happy with can we really expect a judge jury and executioner of social media with that background to be independent

. ok let's get the thoughts now of editorial director for reaction times dot com you know he joins us this evening a very welcome thanks for coming back on what are your thoughts on this and oversight board many people are saying is that you to sort of promoting heightened extremism that have been found on facebook before should we not welcome this move. well it depends on how you look at it i'm kind of shocked i have to do it to see that mark zuckerberg is looking for the government to go ahead and interfere now for so many years web sites like facebook were under the protection of the communications decency act section $230.00 which you know did not hold it to the accountability that it technically should should be how to as a publisher because they do moderate and kind of control the content that's on there so it's not really an online free for all where they're free of liability but

listen oversight board could be good they can be bad depends on the intentions and the individuals that comprise that oversight board i personally prefer less regulation it's funny that people are complaining so much about facebook especially people on the left and you know the whole cambridge analytical thing and people are saying the social media helped get this president elected when in fact brock obama was really the person for media presence president back in 2008 when facebook was new and just over the years conservatives have learned to better utilize the platform to go ahead and promote their political view is part of the problem here is that facebook seems to struggle when it has to clearly define what will go on and what will be taken off because there are gray areas when you look at what's written and of course people will then say well that stands for the judgment of whether sits on not even oversight panel and then there's all these accusations of politically favoring one element rather than the other. well of course yeah and

that's a big problem especially we know jack dorsey has gone out of his way to remove odd twitter accounts that he didn't agree with the political views of there's been really an outbreak of shadow banning of conservatives both on twitter and facebook by mark zuckerberg listen i mean these guys are in you know sitting the high and mighty in silicon valley where 99 percent of the people are liberals and a large percentage of the staff of facebook are liberals and on facebook board i think only features one conservative which has been kind of knocked in the in the media previously have kind of a token individual just there to provide some semblance of diversity we know what the political ideologies are of the people who are running these websites that's why i'm a little bit surprised that zuckerberg just wouldn't sit pretty with the protections he currently enjoys under c.d.a. to 30 and is calling for more government regulations because those are elected bureaucrats that may sit on that board can change from time to time depending on

who the president is and you never really know how in practical application the execution is going to work out geez could actually backfire on facebook because i mean if they are making political decisions when it comes to deciding what goes on sites vocal note if your site is up a whole sort of hone it snatched from the opposition to say we've been i'm sleeping on fatty band on facebook and of course that's going to patch up stories in the press about bias except for i can see this going horribly wrong potentially. yes it can potentially go in a lot of different directions as i stated depending on whose actually winds up having the power to make the decisions as far as what will be considered you know reasonable acceptable you know content that will not be. you know censored you know but i mean it remains to be seen i think we're still at the embryonic stages of social media how this is going to look you know a couple of generations from now and what the outlets that we used to express

ourselves. lyrically are certainly going to change you know your my thesis was a long time ago you know pristine years ago we're talking about my space now it's brief walk years down the road it may be a completely different format that we use or of this type of political expression ok you know look really nice to talk to you to get your thoughts on this. the director editorial director for reaction times dot com thank you thank you. canada's prime minister summit an emergency meeting with his ministers after protests to shut down key rail routes across the country the rapidly escalating rallies hope to stop a vast proposed gas pipeline in british columbia back 30 percent of which will cross territories that belong to indigenous communities protests spread further after police raided an activist camp and arrested several people but the move sparked a public outcry. the

. record. of. the company this building the pipeline says it had received permission from indigenous elected councils but tribal chiefs are against the construction we discuss the conflict for journalists demitra scaurus and also mohawk nation member of the other. the which shouldn't have never signed a treaty with canada. they have an aboriginal tie you know edition of title to their land and they don't operate under the indian act there are there are already a terry traditional government system there salmon bearing stream or some other pristine force and that this pipeline would go through that they're objecting to it

which is why they proposed an alternative route but really it is. an issue about corporate interests trumping indigenous rights in canada i mean coastal gas link the west so it and as i understand it had proposed an alternative route for the pipeline the company said no because of the economic issues associated with changing the route but i think it's going to cost them more money if they continue the conflict and don't do these protests this is actually quite unusual by canadian standards when they begin to have an impact on the economic interests of large businesses in this country then that's an escalation of the fire that the prime minister is forced to deal with it's very hard to see where there's a resolution here because frankly the only resolution that respects truly respects the rights of indigenous people is to put a stop to that pipeline project this is unseated territory the hereditary chiefs of the what's working people have not consented to this project and that is rightly given the historical abuses that have been horrible abuses that have been visited

upon indigenous peoples in this country i think you know we're hearing a lot of lip service as we have for many years from the corporate community in this country about their commitment to human rights environment but the reality is radically inconsistent with their rhetoric and it's time for us to recognise that at the governmental level. still ahead this hour thanks called rejects an appeal to release a russian inside the fraud suspect but have a look at why just after the break. so what we've got to do is identify. the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down in.

following unions at these companies to protect workers' wages but they got rid of all they don't need workers to keep printing money and say ok well these are other products without value saying we don't make products we will make bad products will fall out of the sky and kill people but we still get the bailout money every single day because don't you give it to our corrupt droney couples channelers of course we've got. intentions were. increasing to maybe even 40 years ago they're simply. not seeing the kind of pressure will. welcome back the mother of russian cyber fraud suspect alexander finnick has asked

the french president to ensure her son has the right to an impartial and objective hearing that is after an appeals court in paris ruled to keep her son in custody the next lawyers lodged their appeal last month when alexander was transferred to france from crease he was detained 3 years earlier on charges of cybercrime and illegal business operations since then russia france and the us will fall for 6 tradition we talked to phoenix mother who says the situation her son now finds himself in is a complete mess. just what should what if that be is pretty it's a complete mess what is going on here it's not a trial i think it's a bit of a process a day before yesterday the older kid had a birthday alexander didn't call because he's not allowed to talk with his family but they say it is in the interest of his security he can't communicate with his family with his mother his wife who's elipse who is living her last days with his children when i was leaving the kids beg me granny tell that everything show him

how we are when will our father get back you know we are lying i lied to my daughter in law she doesn't know that she was transferred to france she doesn't remember dates months that's why i'm lying i keep saying we have no connection with him at the moment but who will have soon. his defense team has vowed to fight on and try to make all future hearings public they claim is basic rights are being violated and exploited police there's no basis to keep his client under arrest. so there is no reason for him to remain in custody the prosecutor have already you can always do the no evidence exists against him this why he asks for adjournment so the investigation can continue is completely unreasonable to keep a man in custody for 31 months without evidence without concrete accusations without legal proceedings and without sentence asking to free alexander and

moreover to respect his rights as french authorities are violating his freedom just as greek authorities details use. the us secretary of state is in africa at the moment in a bid to win back business from china these companies dominate the continent but my . speech is to stand in stark contrast to washington's recent actions in the region . i reports like peo is on a goodwill tour of the african continent trying to convince nations that they have no better friend than the good old us of a couple that america is still we will be by your side good relations good to do in dollars as with natural gas right. down to the benefit of their businesses are sure to leave sure it's worth throwing our meeting i congratulated both the president and the foreign minister on the newly discovered energy reserves off the coast american firms like cosmos energy health and baker hughes are all helping to

develop these resources so that they benefit the senate good senegalese people not foreign actors peo has been the us secretary of state for some time however his interest in africa seems to be quite new but perhaps that's because his trip to africa isn't really about africa it's about competing with china it's tempting to accept easy money from places like china. but what good is it if it feeds corruption and undermines your rule of law but that ship has sailed china is already very well in bedded in africa it's the continent's largest trading partner not to mention the fact that beijing has been splashing cash on to development.

furthermore might pompei it was timing seems to be a little bit off the travel ban has just been expanded to include several african countries so you're not welcome in america but me sure to give u.s. officials a hearty welcome not the most winning message. the government expresses its dismay at this unfriendly acts which runs counter to the administration's pronounced policy of constructive engagement to address past wrongs with west africa struggling to protect itself from terrorist groups the usa may have sealed its alliance with military aid however that military aid is being scaled back the usa is also reducing other support in the region. we have spoken with the us about the need for that presence in the area we hope that the americans will continue to

help us in security training and intelligence. also do you remember a certain leader who referred to african countries with some rather profane words well there's still no apology on that there are 54 countries that make up the continent of africa 54 places president from considers to be countries as opposed to describe some immigrants coming from africa as coming from countries tom denies using such derogatory language and democratic senator who sat next to mr trump in the meetings insists that the president repeatedly used the word to describe the countries now behind all the lights cameras handshakes and photo ops mike pompei oh really wants africans to believe that america is their best friend especially if they're trying to get close to china but i think. clearly quite concerned just like the united states are concerned that the chinese have taken a massive lead across the african continent for now as far as i know the chinese

have already got hold in africa i think of mistrust the chinese worked with the chinese if you read the chinese and told access these access levels it was not because i because we're fearful of the chinese or of the dross there is because of because believe that they wanted to choose their own destiny and chose a park which was not the united states for once the us was the you. it is trying to counter that for the u.s. to want to compete with that right now i'm afraid if they're 10 years too late. victory mail is a new project that's been launched by r.t. uniting those who went through the horrors of world war 2 with modern day generations and through it you can send a letter to veterans of that war and tell them how you feel about what they did one of them served in the arctic convoys transporting vital supplies to solve russia

and why he does what he did put his own life on the line he still feels that anybody would have done the same. as in this side as goat song really guy was at so i'm churchill say it was one of the worst journeys in the world and. most respect for them. did not i don't know began. and indeed was always well we

say he summed up places i was stalin starving to death. and. i've been to a sadder and a cemetery where they just mans of earth where they local was da wide and i guess so a bury them then no nines they just numbers. there was $27000000.00 russians killed would during the war. and where their sacrifice and the sacrifice of days russian convoys that woke would never have been one the only regret. dumb spite russian. you know. quite happy. to reply to any election is that you lot the same.

to reduce the. pride of your wife's very. worthwhile project for many veterans monuments or places of healing in the motherland cause europe's tallest statue has been caught on film shrouded in mystery or it is 85 meters high although its size is still nothing close to demonstrating the sheer scale of the losses that took place during the war it was built in 1967 to pay tribute to the heroes of the battle of stalingrad but perceived by many as a general symbol of the war. that brings up today that i think is looking so far today here in r.t. we're back again in 39.