australian m.p.'s visited wiki leaks co-founder julian assange in jail and call on the u.k. government to stop his extradition to the u.s. saying enough is enough. also this hour u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi mourns the e.u. against working with one way running china's tech giant a major security threat she doesn't harm mention her own reported role in the mass american spying including on the e.u. leaders. and facebook boss mark zuckerberg calls on governments to take up some of its responsibility for fighting harmful content head of the e.u. unveiling new human centric online rules.

a very warm welcome to the program on this wednesday morning it's 8 am here in moscow let's get started with your live news update. australian m.p.'s have called on the u.k. government to stop joining us on just extradition to the u.s. they visited the australian citizen in the london prison where he's being held ahead of an extradition hearing one of the lawmakers george christensen told us about the wiki leaks founder deteriorating condition. spike in this wake with professor nils mels of the u.n. special repertory on torture. come to the opinion along with a number of medical experts that julian assange was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited julian assange. and are going to side there's nothing that i saw or that actually. discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer

said he is exhibiting signs of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe us a life and ongoing loss a large negative side technically within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. when you kept by yourself for 20 to 22 as a die 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. that comes as doctors around the world also condemned the u.k.'s handling of the case warning is being subjected to psychological torture in

jail and then $100.00 medics signed a joint letter urging authorities to take action and also called on the australian government to intervene to protect its citizens is the 4th such letter from doctors . meanwhile the guardian newspaper has published a feature article on plans to tackle media repression penned by britain's special envoy on press freedom clooney how one key detail has been left out clooney has links to join us sunday are arguably the most high profile media repression case in the world today could be proposed to sanction all those who take part in jailing journalists for their work including ministers and prosecutors but says nothing about the fact that no such action is being prepared for the treatment of the wiki leaks founder the article did not even mention that clooney was actually a songes lawyer in the 2015 swedish extradition proceedings against him many have been angered by the guardian's convenient mission 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 because julian assange looked up at the because of the us because he exposed war crimes the guardian publishes. press freedom failing to mention this unbelievably and unforgivably no mention of julian a songe journalist and broadcaster neil clark believes the a songe case is too shameful for the u.k. government to bring up. when to the journalist apparently apparently we 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 'd of journalists a massive elephant in the room it's quite extraordinary how anybody could write an article about the persecution of journalists without mentioning. a sound 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 he's quite used to be ignored and when you're talking about it in this context press that persecuted journalists he's an armed person is another person you know could careless being persecuted oh let's talk about other countries official enemy countries and that's fine but not what we've actually got the guy just a few miles away down the road with us back at the jail for doing journalism. i try to brussels the u.s. house of representatives speaker has warned e.u. allies against war way and so plus he insists the chinese based about the power of 5 g. telecom networks in europe is a major threat to security but says nothing about the far more wide scale and program u.s. global surveillance network are just explains. now that the impeachment debacle is all wrapped up guess who's going to europe in order to promote one of the trumpet

ministrations key policies it's the speech ripper herself nancy pelosi the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives is urging european countries to drop plans to use while away as their 5 g. carrier for the benefit of a few corporations you cannot sell the privacy of the people of your country down the river as i said before it's like having the state police write the chinese state police right in your pocket you see nancy pelosi just cares about your privacy odd that she's one of what edward snowden called the gang of 8 key figures that are overseeing surveillance in the united states is far and snowden he did there on the in may be in disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms. of for leasing those documents we don't know i understand and i understand odd timing as well it's just been revealed that the cia was the secret owner of a swiss company that was offering people encrypt people's privacy was compromised

because the cia had a backdoor what the u.s. government speculates that china might be doing they have been caught doing themselves while the e.u. might be more apt to listen to a top democrat then to the donald it seems they still aren't buying nancy's song and dance her euro 2 were is a flop. while he will be able to continue in france and will not be excluded from 5 g. but we will sense a certain number of restrictions to protect some servants. so we decided to ask people what they think of this supposed danger of china spying on them are they more afraid of china spying on them or the american progress or us and i'm not so much. worried about china i'm worried about anybody having access to our data.

be more. ready to spy on you didn't the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world us. can you would guess just the us given say the alignment of interests that river to the us probably you know well the us is far as i'm concerned then you. can get to have done no trump along with them it's a common pattern of human behavior sigmund freud called it projection nothing drives us crazier than thinking that someone else might be doing that nobody thing that we know we are doing ourselves i think the united states has decided for whatever reason that way is an existential threat and they've invested a lot on both sides of the aisle in this and they're going to pursue it ruthlessly i think that the european leadership they're all in a relatively weak position at this point and i don't see anyone really mounting

a consistent strong position against the united states from what i hear from from some of the german ministers and some of the others this. campaign is pure propaganda. i think in a deep sense of sort of undermining this this narrative of superiority that the u.s. has coddled itself with over the last 2030 years and you know this need to create an enemy to to you know make america great again. art see new york. artie's boom bust spoke to the chief security officer of why usa about the campaign against the company. was interesting the u.s. government says that they declassified the information so we welcome the opportunity to see what the evidence is but we really have to look at this in the broader context of the ongoing geo political dynamic. between the u.s. and china the u.s. has some major issues with china and right now the u.s.

wants to hurt china so badly that they're going to hurt america in trying to her way and that's really a shame you look back some years ago when i brought snowden revealed information about the u.s. program prism and about the 5 year campaign of the u.s. government to spy on wa wait operation shop giant where they monitored all while why not work for 5 years and could not find any improper communications and in the prison program they found that the u.s. government used for example cisco equipment to spy around the world most recently the washington post crypto a.g.d. a swiss company that turned out is controlled by the cia so they've been monitoring encrypted communications of all the countries in the world except for china and russia so the fact is it is important to recognize the role of the equipment vendors and the telecom and mobile operators there is a lawful backdoor by the telecom the mobile operators that is triggered by lawful action by governments such as the us government of china government we don't have that access we don't control that data.

i. had a facebook has visited the e.u. to call for more state regulation of social media companies mark zuckerberg speech was seen as an attempt to find a compromise with brussels which says it's introducing rules requiring a more ethical approach by technology firms facebook has also announced an independent oversight body that questions are already being raised over its impartiality that a quarter has more. 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 the regulation we get facebook 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 straight 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 it up targeting many accounts that had nothing to do with russia its campaign to flag political ads treat some organisations 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 relax 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 him self 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. companies like mine also need better oversight when we make decisions which is why we creating an independent oversight board so people can appeal facebook's come to decisions the director proposed for the so-called independent board goes by the name of thomas hughes and he says he is 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 and 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 bill i'm 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 used that they 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 shouted banned 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. u.s. presidential candidate michael bloomberg will sell his media empire if he becomes president an announcement came i heard of the latest from a democratic debates being held on wednesday in las vegas bloomberg well for the. time face rivals who criticize the billionaires massive spending on campaign ads it's estimated bloomberg has splashed out more than $400000000.00 on television radio and online ads that's 10 times more than the current party front runner bernie sanders donald trump for a friend spend around 325000000 on this whole 2016 campaign bloomberg spending

has enraged sanders who claims it amounts to vote buying. say they are blue burke. we all. see it all look your doctored up gardner so like sure. bloomberg was quick to hit back saying sanders supporters aggressiveness can hardly be called democracy and he employed a slick video clip to make his point. my colleague and her former discuss the voters views on bloomberg campaign with legal analyst jennifer to master a libertarian presidential candidate arbonne bora and political analyst dakota lily

. dakota if i could start with you. says that bloomberg is buying is that a fair comment i do think it's a fair comment even if you look at the rules that the d.n.c. has instituted this is a complete change of what they've done so far this complete you know this late runners coming into their campaign spending $400000000.00 with perhaps he's spending so much money and so that he can make up for the fact that he doesn't have any real grassroots support but i think it definitely amounts to vote buying it's not so problematic that bloomberg of spending money on his own campaign the bigger problem is the d.n.c. what rules is the democratic national committee democratic national committee making with superdelegates and with everything else because the way the d.n.c. seems to be operating is that you're allowed to run for president play if you have the money or if we at least approve of you it's not against bloomberg it's not it's not his fault that he's need to spend this kind of money because that's the way campaigns are the bloomberg campaigns views would be massively unpopular with

a lot of the democratic base and a lot of the american people and by fixating on this sort of minor non issue i mean in politics you ought to spend as much of your own money as you want to by trying to get people to fixate on this non issue the bloomberg campaign is affectively distracting america from the positions that bloomberg holds that are at odds with the majority of both the democratic base and the american people this is a very unpopular person with very unpopular opinions according to the democratic party base and also the general population he's polling you know i haven't seen one poll where he's polling above 5 percent this is really showing the corruption of the d.n.c. what there is nothing illegal about what he's doing but i think really that's part of a larger indictment of the american political system more than anything else as well as the rules of the d.n.c. as has been stated that this is an indictment that was a perfect description of the american political system of course you can look at

the republican party a lot of republican candidates had. a lot of money back in 2016 and yes donald trump spent his own he was not favored to when he was not going to when hillary clinton had tons of funding between hollywood between lots and lots of billionaire billionaires so the american people could still vote but that also raises the question when there are lots of different candidates within one party like we're seeing with the d.n.c. and i think the american people deserve to see who the candidates are and what their actual viewpoints are and how they stand on things democrats and republicans they control the presidential debates they change the commission on presidential big debates has changed the debate threshold the do everything they can to keep their parties and independents out of the debates and you can see this in the way that they mistreat any candidate that opposes a massive military overage so they've shut out sanders gabbert all the 3rd party candidates who oppose it the united states is definitely an oligarchy and i think that most of the people of the united states know this a lot of these people who voted for obama and they're voting for trump but both of

these people received plenty of money from fossil fuel companies from banking institutions from financial institutions from all these different entities but in a true oligarchy not much has been done about it. british environmental activist group extinction rebellion has vandalize the lawn outside of cambridge university college 3 of the activists have been arrested with others now in custody are reports digging up the lawn of the world for non-college stopping traffic and a whole week of protests is this a way to gain support this is normally one of the busiest roads right here in the center of cambridge but as you can see it's pretty quiet today apart from the music playing behind me because extinction rebellion have blockaded this road but what do the locals think about this is just one of those that isn't going so well they do

you say people they're not getting anybody on their side. yes they just annoy people bundlers the trinity colleges ties with fossil fuel companies investments of around 9000000 pounds are what's driving the anger of the activists trinity college has invested 9100000 pounds in oil and gas companies the most of any of the $45.00 oxbridge colleges they are complicit in the climate an ecological crisis trinity college responded with this the college respects the rights of free speech and nonviolent protest but draws the line in criminal damage and is liaison with the police and the police have had to control the uproar the right to peaceful protest which police have a duty to facilitate needs to be balanced against the other responsibilities of the police to promote public safety maintain public order prevent crime and protect the rights of others but how has the actions of the group encourage the port is this the moment where extinction rebellion mooses sympathy very laudable return truth

and practical. really inconvenient and once they've done what they wanted to do $3.00 to $4.00 they should pack up and go but that's over and above what should happen after coming here to cambridge today it's clear that there's them in our situation between the protesters and locals a full week of disruption and rebellion now dearer to r.t. . the boy scouts of america are one of the oldest u.s. youth organizations has filed for bankruptcy the move comes as the group allegedly faces hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits i'm sorry i'm devastated that there were times in the past when we failed the very children we were supposed to protect i want you to know that we believe you we believe in compensating you and we have programs in place to pay for counseling for you and your family. some of the

organizations insurers have refused to cover payouts in sex abuse cases claiming that the group could have prevented the abuse the bankruptcy will halt judicial procedures while the settlements are being negotiated plaintiff's lawyers fear this will delay resolution of the cases for years the justice that they so we'll deserved will unfortunately escape them in the end and that is a true tragedy. membership of the organization has been on the decline for more than a decade policy adviser and former scout john logsdon told us why i think you have a lot of factors i think fortunately a lot of the technology the video games and and those things have distracted kids sports seems to be a little less popular scouting the numbers have been falling off pretty dramatically the idea that kids are being molested and maybe the boy scouts are doing as good a job as they can of protecting and it doesn't look good for the boy scouts at all

i think it's really a hugely damaging to the organization that what was once great i was a boy scout i was really born and raised in scouting it was a great organization and it is just unfortunate that they've been hit this hard i think it's really going to shrink in size dramatically i think a lot fewer boys are going to be involved. and other news from around the world security forces in iraq have stepped up their crackdown on mass protests. police used tear gas to force thousands of people from the central square in baghdad iraq has been gripped why mass unrest over government corruption since october of last year demonstrations have continued despite the resignation of the prime minister. hundreds of homes have been flooded in the u.s. state of mississippi after 2 rental rain these are the latest pictures from the

city of ridgeland forecasters are predicting further downpours and authorities in the state capital jackson have urged hundreds of residents not to return home until they get the all clear. and founds of a let's go madrid turn the skyride on tuesday night and had their encounter with liverpool thousands of flares were lit outside the stadium as the teams arrive for the champions league game. about a crow went into the last 16 times as underdogs but won the 1st leg one. the political crisis is deepening in germany in the wake of an unprecedented alliance by the ruling christian democrats with an anti migration party for a key regional election peter all over has the details. the times a set for changing for angle of the christian democratic union party with their good at our announcing that she will step down as party leader in that she doesn't want to be considered for the election if chancellor next year it means big changes

have to be made but instead of getting on with making those big changes some in the c.d.u. party leadership are pointing the finger of blame at both poles of german politics saying they're to blame for the c.d.u. suffering the any of you benefits a little from what the left party has been saying for 30 years maybe that everything is bad they can reap the benefits of that now who protest voters have gone to the a.f.d. the the bar coal into danger where the c.d.u. allying themselves with the right wing a.f. de ultimately toppled come in an attempt to bring some stability to the central german state the left party proposed putting in place former minister president christine leivick knecht of the c.d.u. until new elections can be held to reader is far from having stable conditions which the absolute majority of citizens want the proposal of appointing the big nectars transitional prime minister to open

a nonpartizan way this is acceptable for the democratic parties in this parliament great problem solved not quite a situation that came about after the c.d.u. broke promises not to allying themselves with the right wing could only be temporarily solved if they were to break all the promises not to align themselves with the far left leaving the ruling party in a damned if they do damned if they don't predicament the situation in chile is very complicated for the c.d.u. it can only do this because path of its electorate. why sue have a clear message against the a d and they're not providing that while another part of the electorate. well they would much rather not. vote for a party that is in line with what is going on behind the scenes it's fine for the succession to anger the market and some people say that she has damaged the cd

irreversibly and that the party is nala in a death spiral because of america's politics we're going to have merkel's preferred choice of party leader taking herself out of the running the future of the christian democratic union party is currently a 4 way race and with angela merkel set to remain in the role of chancellor until late 2021 the real question has to be will whoever gets the job of c.d.u. chairperson be willing to play 2nd fiddle to the chancellor until then especially after having watched a case performance doing just that if they won't then well perhaps the reign of germany's 2nd longest serving post-war chancellor could well come to an end sooner than she would have expected with elections being called early peter all

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