it was. it was. more than a 100 doctors from around the wilds finally less so condemning the british government's treatment of julian assange which. has revealed a young sex trafficking victim in the u.k. didn't receive any support from the or forest season so the case ended up in the high court we hear from her lawyer. it's completely unacceptable that someone so vulnerable and someone so at risk of free trafficking was not provide agreed to support them accommodation that this is desperately needed. on facebook last long zaka books a social media giant steve more regulation from governments to tackle harmful kong sounds.

a warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me karen our top story doctors from around the world have condemned the british government's handling of the julian assange case they claim the wiki leaks founder is being subjected to psychological torture in prison more than $100.00 doctors have signed a joint letter urging the u.k. or thirty's to take action they also called on the australian government to intervene to protect its citizens is the full stops as letters since the songs made his 1st court appearance. in the documented 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 i'm only going torture we also raise the question as to the son's fitness to participate in the u.s. extradition proceedings next take us on face the herring on his possible

extradition to the us where he's been charged with hacking and espionage ahead of that the current wiki leaks editor in chief condemned the u.k. in action. and what's at stake is not just. close to lots of crazy 175 years in prison if that's a vote. he's the future after this that's how important is this is the crater so on. australian and paid george christensen has visited us found in prison and say is the condition of the journalist is frightening. spike in this wake with professor nils mels of the un special rapporteur on torture. come to the opinion the along with a number of medical experts that julian a songe was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited julian assange . and are going to side there's nothing that i saw that actually.

discredited what does doc does and what mills mills a said he is exhibiting saw ends of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe isolation and ongoing loss a large notice i take lay within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. but when you kept by yourself 20 to 22 as a di with that minimal human contact you're effectively oss alloted so all of that has led to i guess at the plated state of health for julian a songe and i don't think it's fair or told to extradite an australian citizen. at of one foreign country into another foreign country to face charges for what for reporting on the facts. well meanwhile the guardian newspaper has published

a feature article on tons to tackle media repression by the british special envoy on press freedom clooney however one key detail has been missed it clearly links to julian assange and on to his case in particular despite the fact it's one of the most high profile cases of the journalists being persecuted in the country the guardian's article focused on clooney has 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 they all school didn't even mention clooney was actually a songes lawyer during the swedish extradition proceeding proceedings against him in 2015 the admission 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 leakers julian assange. because of the years because he exposed war crimes the guardian publishes an article for them failing to mention this unbelievably and unforgivably no mention of julian a songe. journalist and broadcaster neil clark believes the government doesn't want to talk about the song's case as it's too shameful. went to the journalist apparently apparently not 100 percent sure but apparently didn't see the need to actually braise the raise 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 how anybody could write an article about the persecution of journalists without mentioning judith a search for the establishment this whole case now is a big embarrassment. and a song it's either someone who could be attacked or to be ignored his plight is to be ignored away that you're talking about in this context press the persecution of

journalists is another person is another person you know journalists being persecuted oh let's talk about other countries official enemy countries that that's fine but not what we actually got the guy just a few miles away down the road for this bag at the jail for doing journalism. a valuable british woman who had been repeatedly sex trafficked by drug gangs was denied support from the british government and so compelled by the high court the shocking revelation comes despite the u.k. claiming it leads the way in the fight against forced labor and directed reforms the k. 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 far from the case.

she was 1st registered as a victim of sex trafficking in 2019 and the precious law 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 omar has made a decision that a crime is a potential victim of trafficking now that's when the legal obligation to provide her with adequate support and assistance 1st arose and the home office was underage duty to protect her. this is in spite of the fact that she has contacts 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 when the. decision was made that she was a potential victim of trafficking up until january 2020 and the homeowners were aware that there was at least 3 instances agreed trafficking for the purple sexual exploitation and made that case into the high court that time a crime is being released to homelessness you've been discharged from hospital and the judge ordered that they must provide you with accommodation until further order officials have been vague to say the least in their comments on the case are significant reforms of the national referral mechanism for victims of modern slavery such as the introduction of a new single competent or thorough see on the launch of

a digital referral for air and shore 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 confirmed that more than 2000 survivors of modern day slavery were given housing and. precious 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 theory tutor r.t. . facebook bass mark zuckerberg has said big tech companies need more state regulation and social media giant recently announced a new independent oversight body however it's already raising questions about impartiality on quarter explains for years political scandals and government pressure to regulate content have been

a thorn in facebook's side it's not just about innovation you need regulation we get the we can 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 my god 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 who 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 what i don't understand is why these are not regulated like a public utility i am a conservative i don't like regulation of business almost ever except when it becomes obvious that they are being used by the public in ways that public utilities are use that they've become something that is as ordinary or even in some

cases more ordinary than making a phone call facebook is doing what we call shadow banking and in all likelihood of the only complaints i ever see about this are from conservatives why is that why is it that conservatives especially trump based conservatives are being shadowed and i want to know the answer to that i'd love to ask mark zuckerberg that question myself as long as that's the kind of regulating so-called regulating that mark zuckerberg and his team are doing i would say we need to look at some sort of regulating them like a utility company like a telephone company like a gas company other utilities that are regulated and need to be able to be used broadly across both sides of the political aisle so it's a common the pipeline protesters are shutting down road lines in canada about story and well off the break stay with us. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the us and the

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please. welcome back curtis prime minister has called an emergency meeting with his ministers after protesters shut down key rail lines across the country activists are hoping to stop a natural gas pipeline being built in british columbia about 30 percent of the route passes through territories that belong to indigenous communities the movement's ask later and all of the police raided an activist camp and arrested several people please. please i.

accompany this building the pipelines as it had received permission from indigenous elected councils but tribal chiefs are against the construction where you discuss the conflict with journalist dimitri less scaurus and mohawk nation member russell deal. the which they wouldn't have never signed a treaty with canada. they have 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 their 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 and really it is. an issue about corporate interests trumping indigenous rights in canada i mean coastal gas link the west to 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 went to work and 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 but 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. with another news from around the world now security forces they in iran can step up their crackdown on mass protests i receive take acid for thousands of people to the central square in baghdad. iraq has been gripped by mass unrest over government corruption since last october the demonstrations have continued despite the resignation telling us to deal in the. hundreds of homes have been flooded in the u.s. state of mississippi of the 2 renshaw rains these are the latest pictures from the city of richland forecasters are predicting further downpours dorothy's in the state's capital jackson have urged hundreds of residents not to return home until they get the all clear. sounds of athletico madrid turns the sky

red on tuesday night ahead of their encounter with liverpool thousands of flares were lit on the side of the metropolitan their stadium as the teams arrived for the champions league game let it go went into last 16 1st leg underdogs but a 4th minute strike was enough to secure a victory for the spaniards have opposable now hope to make up the. deficit in the 2nd leg at anfield. the us government has imposed sanctions on a subsidiary of russia's biggest oil company rolls nephtali over its role in venezuela washington accuse the swiss based brokerage wells now have to say of helping the mature government evade sanctions well the u.s. special representative for venezuela elliott abrams explained the move to another step in the policy of pressuring the dura regime to allow venezuela to escape from its terrible crisis through free and fair presidential elections there will be more

steps and further pressure in the coming weeks and months. rosenau task condemned the latest factions calling them unjustified and unlawful they control russian firm denied having violated any u.s. restrictions on venezuelan oil trade and said it has no political goals well meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has accused washington of disrupting international trade. the destructive u.s. policy of sanctions undermines more and more the freedom of global trade which america claims to protect but also escalates tensions worldwide it's time for washington's lawmakers to realize that they're achieving nothing with the economic and military pressure on russia other than worsening the crisis in bilateral relations a sign says all the latest round of a long running u.s. pressure counterpane against venezuela's president nicolas maduro and january $29000.00 the u.s. formally recognized the opposition leader is interim leader of finance whaler

although more than a year later but there are still in power latin america alan analyst daniel schorr say is washington is trying to cause division in venezuela new sanctions this blockade is designed to the human misery to try to stifle dissent in the division in the ranks of the venezuelan people this blockade is for misery and hunger to 30000000 people with it as well as he stands for and how hypocritical. able to somehow get liberated venezuela when they want the exact opposite me in st louis as well as national war they want to continue to. i simply. rushes a virtue of the. resources for our people certainly russia the other countries in the world and certainly. the u.s.

sanctions and once again we see the u.s. exposed it's really the empire that's isolating themselves more and more every day . victory mail is a new projects launched by aussie uniting those who went through the horrors of world war 2 with laws and day generations through it's you can send a letter to the veterans of that war and tell them how you feel about what they did one of them said in the arctic convoys transporting vital supplies to soviet russia and want to put his own life on the line he still feels anybody would have done the same. there isn't this side as sung really goes out to them churchill said it was one of the worst journeys in the world and. the most respect for them.

it follows that for. good luck and i hope began collecting and the rest and so was well received some places i was starving starving to death. and. been to a site or a cemetery where days just mans of birth where the local we stow i had and i just show a buried a man no names they just numbers. there was 27000000 russians killed during the war. and where their sacrifice and the sacrifice of these russian convoy that will would never be one

the only regret of the dumps by russian. hero you know. quite happy. to reply to any letters that you are saying. don't reduce our pride as your wife for you. are many veterans monuments are places of healing the motherland calls in russia is europe's tallest statue and has been caught on film shrouded in mist it's 85 meters high you could just see the top there where it's lies is still nothing close to demonstrating the sheer scale of losses during the war it was built in 1967 to pay tribute to the heroes of the battle of starling. love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in

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hello and welcome the cross talk for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the atlantic alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 global security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington and brussels diverged on important foreign policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. crosstalk in the atlantic alliance i'm joined by my guest mark allman in oxford he's the director of the crisis research institute in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs. also in london we have a real he is founder of consulting and a foreign affairs analyst or a gentleman cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here let me just read you 2 quotes here number one foreign minister lavrov played in munich saying quote

change course speak for it's too late and we have the new head of the european union's foreign policy arm he he also says europe must develop quote appetite for power in the trump era they're both hinting at the same thing in different directions here what does that tell you better change course before it's too late what's that mean to you. i think certainly the tensions between russia and the west in general are really probably tension in russia in the united states and we can see that actually inside the european union and the european members of nato there are quite sharp divisions between the east european states who live with historical enmity and resentments against with russia into russia and the soviet union and then the west who are.