every top i think it be. the water where politicians you walk to school in on the go ahead. us media explains that russia is backing both the republicans and the democrats in the 2020 presidential election as anonymous sources kick off another alleged russian meddling campaign stateside. accused of fueling hatred politicians in germany blame the rise of the alternative for germany party in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated terror attack in hama. and the new york times riles the afghan president over an article by a taliban leader i'll take a look at the ethics of giving everyone a free speech. why is it that they are so willing to publish the leader of a new islamic terror organization so openly as though they were right for their own

star all about free speech being open to debate and discussion. by their american feel week and world news for a multi international column brought in moscow 1st for you this saturday the us media is already pointing fingers east this time going after the democrats from one of the 2020 presidential election that's ahead of crucial primaries in the state of nevada where bernie sanders is leading the polls the washington post claims through unnamed sources though that he's receiving russian help for his campaign and that he's been informed about it. it was not clear what role they're going to play we were told that russia maybe other countries are going to get involved in this campaign and look here's the message to russia stay out of american elections the do nothing democrats using disinformation hawks number 7 don't want bernie sanders to get the democratic nomination and they figured this would be very bad for his

chances it's all rigged again and again is crazy bernie sanders. one democratic rival mike bloomberg has jumped on the report to target sanders posting feel the burn in russian on social media and the stand off highlighting yet more turbulence in the blue camp. meanwhile the new york times claims the u.s. president is also a benefactor of alleged russian help moved to dismiss the report and said it expects similar claims to multiply in the run up to the election. commercially new. books will bring you to people getting a clue. how do they mean. creature well sure to. a saskia now look whether it really is a case of here we go again. dear diary i know i can be a bit of

a warrior you know better than anyone but this time i really think we might have a serious. situation on our hands it is the conclusion of multiple us intelligence agencies that the russian federation is once again trying to interfere in our 2020 alexion our presidential election again to try to elect donald trump the russians off to american democracy again and there's just so much evidence to back it up this time in a closed meeting undisclosed intelligence officials told congress that most who want to keep orange one in the white house for another few years and 5 unnamed people who apparently are in the loop told us so it's a soul thing i turned on the t.v. and everyone's quoting it a bombshell revelation just makes me panic more than america's democracy once again under attack by a foreign adversary new revelations about russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 election with the hope of getting the president president. and also to make

americans doubt the integrity of the election process this is not a 4 year ago flashback folks this is 2020 and the media would so panic would jump on the bandwagon just to boost their ratings that would be unconscionable wouldn't it i know you'll say i'm i'm spiraling but can you see how burn up proof this latest report is i mean i agree i did read the article which published the info for us and there isn't a single concrete fact a piece of evidence provided but they promise it will all come to light soon both republicans and democrats the intelligence agencies to hand over the underlying material that prompted the conclusion the rush is again favoring mr trump selection how soon the house committee might get that information is not clear and if it wasn't convincing enough trump thought the director of national intelligence and replaced him with a man who supports him can't be a coincidence can it i mean that's basically admitting that he's a criminal stooge the president of the united states is now helping the president

of russia help the president of the united. just to get reelected now i don't want to exaggerate or anything but this is a national emergency we are now in a full blown national security crisis by trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to congress trump is abetting a russian covert operation to keep him in office for moscow's interests not america's and politicians are panicking to it so seriously even tweeted about it poor hillary's also chimed in still a bit saw over the whole 2016th test i suppose putin spotted is at it again taken russian hope for himself who knows he can win without it and we can't let it happen i mean to someone fat the democrats are just being unlucky the mourner report was a boston pietschmann fell flat on its face but still how could anyone pick trump over that and just tick inspiring democrat candidates on offer take joe biden for

example sure he's got a on approach but he's clearly a good parent and that's got to count for something right then does michael bloomberg sure he made a few crude comments apparently about women back in the eighty's but these were different times now he's just a good old clean billionaire and bernie sanders well the good old bunny mo wasn't as giving his honest opinion when he allegedly said a woman could become a president no no the more i think about it the clearer it is a trump 2020 victory could only have the kremlin's fingerprints all over it. diary what a disaster there is no truth to this there's not one shred of evidence and this is pretty pathetic that they have to try to restart this fake witch hunt yet again what is happening to president trump right now is that he's at an all time popularity the democrats see that now they're stuck with a socialist obviously and in burnie and the democrats are desperate so they're

trying to dredge up the old story that in this. so fake witch hunt and the russia story that didn't work the 1st time it's not going to work this time and for them to go back and pursue it only tells me that they are scraping the bottom of a very empty barrel and they have nothing else to run on. leaving politicians in germany who have lashed out of the anti immigration alternative for germany party in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated national ting's into bars and how now in which 9 were killed the lawmakers argued that the a.f.p. has helped create an atmosphere of hatred but in the 1st glance it looks like it was a lone wolf attacking one man carried it out but there were those who had provided him with ammunition and the if these definitely among them used it in germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this week's tragic slayings in hull now we've seen politicians from the christian democratic union the social democrats

they are part of the ruling coalition as well as the left party and the greens as well coming out and accusing alternative future media day of funding the flames of far right extremism in the country of course there's a direct connection between the growing strength of the a.f.d. and the increasing right wing violence citizens of foreign descent are being denied their human dignity it's so dangerous because it brings someone to a point where they commit a crime here we have a fatal disinhibition at work and the a.f.d. bear responsibility for that too 9 people were killed this week 2 shooting incidents at 2 separate she should bars in the city of how now all of those that were killed were from an immigrant background most of them were young people as well we heard from warren and i witnessed you describe for us the scenes of that night. the man came in and started shooting at a kiosk then he came to us he shot the 1st person in the head then shot of the 2nd

person we'll drop down to the ground i pretended to be dead we all pretended to be dead we all fell down and he the shooter had emptied his magazine by then and just run away so i opened my eyes i was ok i was still alive but i just didn't want to believe it was real i asked unit everything was ok he groaned he got me he got me there was a hole in his neck i shouted the other guy to ask if he was ok he hadn't seen a bullet in the shoulder. he didn't see the blood as he was wearing a coat he said jamiroquai i stood up and saw interest lying is brother nasser and he was dead and the others were lying there too so i went out and peeped into the kiosk the people in there were all that i didn't know what to do i just couldn't believe it was happening or police have confirmed that the main suspect had killed himself his body was found along side of the 17 year old mother the 42 year old opened to weapons legally the howling gun that he used to carry out the attack had

been modified to allow it to release bullets quick as that alongside calls for tighter security and more surveillance of far right to vittie in germany there are also calls for tougher gun laws in the country and i have to spokesperson claims that the german establishment is desperately trying to link the atrocity to his party. the killer was 'd the paranoid he was because a friend made the point he said it very soon on twitter and this guy had no connection to any any political group to any. extremist to any right wing groups and what is what is just terrible. the situation that the all political parties are trying to get somehow to the a.f.c. this is the only way how can they manage to fight against us because they have no real political arguments and policy in the political discussion so therefore they

are always just trying to push us into a ride to a corner so that the people are afraid even to talk to us to listen to our political arguments we are we are living in a very heavy political oppression and my mind that we are not free to express what we want our people are permanently under attack of left extremists and you know what happened now is that we are putting in the corner where we donned the long. article in a leading us newspaper written by a taliban deputy leader is not going down well in afghanistan with officials last wrongly criticizing the new york times for publishing it. it is that the new york times has given the platform to an individual who is on a designated terrorist list he and his network are behind ruthless attacks against

some foreigners the how can he and the taliban are responsible for the deaths of dozens of american soldiers and atrocities against afghan civilians the new york times should be ashamed of itself for enabling this blatant propaganda from a designated global terrorists all in the name of diverse reviews sarojini carney's and tourist war crime suspects being investigated by the international criminal court why does the new york times give him or pitts space the author is among the world's most wanted man and the f.b.i. office 5000000 dollars for any information that could lead to his arrest ceridian carney who today designated terrorist in the united states is described by the agency's website as armed and dangerous after the backlash the new york times defended its decision to publish the article it claims it's essential to represent all viewpoints on the conflict especially to highlight the progress being made in peace talks we discussed whether everyone should have a voice or not. i think the editorial team of the new york times or to think very

carefully about the decision i think they should think about whether they would publish an article for example by a far right terrorists and question whether or not they would apply their principles universally but nonetheless i think it's a defensible decision it's all about free speech being open to debate and discussion we know that our thought is of negotiations and discussions with groups in northern ireland things can change but you've got to be open and you've got to be able to listen to the discourse everything of course were absolute freedom of speech but i think the decision to publish this is an op ed perhaps cannot be understated you know the new york times is arguably one of the most woke newspapers in the world and i think there is something extraordinary about the decision to publish this almost without question a piece which is largely without much journalistic mary i would say you know the piece itself is basically propaganda for the taliban sometimes the dialogue has to be opened in some direction and this may just be that. which may be out the norm

but it may just be a route that they're looking at we have no idea whether this represents an accurate portrayal and in fact it could do more damage to the negotiations long term and you know why is it that they are so willing to publish the leader of and these islamic terror organizations so openly as though they were right for their own staff this is really a no platform situation with them if you keep no platform and then people get the wrong view of them soon as you open it up debate to find out how they are sure that in the eyes of the public so yes let's freedom of speech let it all be out there let's debate it. and then move forward you know if you don't like the debate then go somewhere else listen to some of the news. a longstanding tradition is no longer to everyone's taste in the german city of cologne a special festival cake on sale in one of the city's bakeries debate online because some see it as pandering to race is stereotypes known as chocolate kisses the

treats have overly large lips which according to some is offensive to black people . i just received a photo from a cafe in cologne from a good friend the white chocolates are just as bad they are supposed to look like north africans dear cafe consistory from your bakery disgusts me the point is that the chocolate covered marshmallows i make to show racist stereotypes with eclipse but people in cologne we spoke to still have an appetite for their controversial confectionery. no i do not think it's racist it's a tradition that does not refer to anyone in particular so i think it's all right son it vij nonsense it's always been this way i see nothing racist about it and was all know how is it racist it looks nice. it's simply the color of chocolate i wouldn't think it turned thing negative of crime fall no way it's racist i think it's nice and there's no need to view it this way is

a tradition which should be preserved. to me black and white chocolate have nothing to do with racism it's rather a matter of taste they taste different there's. this is also international still had this saturday with julian assange his extradition hearing starting this coming monday in london a report on support protests being planned in london but this weekend. 6 guys are financial survival. when customers go buy your supplies. in now well reducing our. that's undercutting but what's good for the market is back here to the global economy. join me every 1st week on the alex simon

shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. you see. a lot again wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to begin his u.s.

extradition hearing in a london court this coming monday and supporters of planned protests over the weekend with veteran british rocker roger waters heading the rally is facing charges of hacking a u.s. government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 he spent 7 years in london's ecuadorian embassy before being removed by police we spoke to the former pink floyd front man about the importance of saturday's protest. committed no crime apart from a minor bio infringement if he did it it's absolutely clear now that he didn't rape anyone in stock that was a poor thing to try and get it he was so right when he said he was frightened of going to sweet because they would extradite eyes to see exactly what they would have done this is being blown out completely by what's happened now here in the united kingdom where the u.k. government have decided to feed him to the wolves. they've almost killed him in

belmarsh he's really sick if you read craig murray's description of him in the in the last hearing before that awful manches straight he it's really really moving craig's a friend of his and he's in a chilling could you could hardly remember a zone name. he maybe that got a drugged a law which they probably have to probably go on a concert you know trial lawyers to see as well but now he's been in prison for 7 years now in the dorian embassy and now in the spikes security place at boma it's disgusting he hasn't committed a crime. julian assange should america getting a fair trial is 00 charles they're breaking the law to try and get him there that would there is an extradition treaty between the u.k. and the united states which has a number of articles of the forethought to call off the eighty's that no extradition proceedings should devens dought if there is

a political motivation to it this is a political course it is 100 percent political it's not a legal proceeding it's all it's a job and it's disgusting and and and for english prudence to fail an ordinary journalist doing his job properly like this. makes me ashamed to being. the case is crucial only if you believe in the rule of law and freedom of speech and if you believe that the press and journalists have a responsibility to inform the public if they kill a song it's going to be at the back of everybody else's oh my god they killed him they're going to kill me too if i step out of line it's a way of searching for authority so that nobody will report on anything that could be so power. human rights groups are demanding that a british university suspends

a master's program that runs with bahrain's royal academy of policing huddersfield university flies academics out to bahrain despite rights campaigners condemning the kingdom as a torture for prisoner abuse a director for the bahrain institute for rights and democracy says it repeatedly called for the course to be dropped the british government got to stop their own go and get training with security forces because if it did any think it did the enlisted off improving the situation they just simply had them to cover up abuses the place where they teach the course is the place where prisoners get tortured so it's extremely serious allegations we have extremely strong evidence and can be even better fired within asylum seekers in britain. 2017 a un report calls for the torture and ill treatment of prisoners to be more thorough be investigated because previous complaints made by rights groups were not

reviewed independently the university refuses to confirm just how much it's being paid by bahrain saying that that information is commercially sensitive but it says it will give consideration to the request and that it will respond in the coming days we've also asked the bahraini government to the university to comment as well we heard from mr the again who told us that his institute's details on occasions from 10 presidents who've allegedly been tortured. we opened those testimonies which came to us that are to from this into the prism behind your prison and somebody called us to give us the details of how those individuals or thought of this is i'm talking about the fears 10 testimony from the victims that are key detailing how they were abused directly to me there is a consistent account on many of them where subjected to physical and psychological torture some of them were subjected to electric shocks some of a lot of them where naked the during the interrogation they were blindfolded some of them at age they were raped and sexually assaulted had their reckoning they make

threats against their families and just last weekend i happened to know that my own family including my brother in law was subjected to torture at the royal academy this is what i got from his last chord. washington post has altered the headline which originally suggested elite should play a key role in picking the country's president it comes after the outlet found itself in the spotlight online. democracy dies in darkness unless darkness is what the elites need to read in election in which case maybe democracy isn't all that great anyway the close to run the headline that says silence presents the wealthy are speaking democracy dies in darkness whispers jeff bezos to michael bloomberg rupert murdoch julian sinclair and donald trump in a dark smoke filled room suckers. when the current us election system primaries

take place at the beginning of an election year to select candidates in some states every citizens every citizen can vote but in others only registered voters can take part however it's not just the votes that secure the nomination it's also down to the number of delegates they get depending on the size of the state media analysts leinil believe the article is simply a bold move for attention. like 1st of all it was one of the most poorly constructed arguments ever i read it and i thought to myself i don't understand what this is suggesting so i gave it to a couple of by learned colleagues they don't know what it is either we don't know what exactly this is suggesting who are these elites this is a college professor a ph d. ph d. stand for something this far is the washington post goes it is a rag it is a hospital mop it is it is it is nothing it it though the glory days of your from

watergate it's over with not only that the print media in this country newspapers are closing the new york times as a joke so what you see right now is one last gasp effort to put something in it will get people to talk about it. the u.s. has slapped yet more sanctions on iran this time over parliamentary elections washington earlier blacklisted 5 members of the council the vets candidates one of those officials gave his reaction saying the restrictions have nothing to do with supporting democracy even though boycotts and sanctions on members of the guardian council the u.s. regime has soon but it has nothing to do with democracy it's a. dictatorship and milled the region like a cow we are now more determined to learn to old boots to the people. some 7000 candidates were vying for 290 seats in parliament only results will be announced later on saturday it's the 1st nationwide ballot since u.s.

sanctions against iran were reinstated in 2018 washington stepped up its pressure on terror and after withdrawing from the 2015 iran nuclear deal the election comes as terror on struggles with economic recession and spiraling tensions with washington over the killing of iran's top military general a middle east analyst we spoke to says the sanctions are a way of openly interfering in foreign elections. i think that it's fine for the west to be pointing the finger at iran because that way they're actually quite 104 fingers at themselves showing because the world now has come to laugh at america at the elections that they've been holding the farce and the lies and the complete gadget but i think there's also a dark message in the us and i think that is to agitate iranians inside iran and polarized date the united states wants to give the impression that it's on the side of the people who have who are pro west and duct reformists there's nothing more outrageously open than obvious about the interference for these

sanctions because the sanctions insult as far as the monetary things girl doesn't make any difference it's just the message they're sending and they're saying how do you not pick the candidates that we would approve of more that's basically what it is. swarms of locusts approached china's border with pakistan and the chinese are preparing a unit of unusual soldiers to fight off the plague like threat. it was. was . was like you. right right.

right. ok that's all from the moscow newsroom for this hour more great altie programs on the way for you this saturday wherever you're watching oh thanks for choosing r.t. international.

i'm afshin rattansi and we're going underground ahead of a london trial that could decide the fate of all journalism and the ability of the public to understand how their consent is being manufactured by the powerful coming up on the show are you comfortably numb close to 10 years since collateral murder revealed nato nations indiscriminate targeting of journalists and civilians form a pink floyd front man what to watch as the british government persecuting wiki leaks founder julian assange plus greed in an industry exposed by wiki leaks as london fashion week shuts down its glamorous facade we talked to steve coogan and michael winterbottom about their satire on capitalism featuring the last ever on screen before months of u.k. celebrity caroline flack both of all coming up in today's going underground but 1st ahead of next week's hearings on the trial of julian assange we've still heard nothing from u.k. labor leadership contenders in defense of the wiki leaks publisher but one candidate for deputy richard bergen has been speaking out going underground fine

ahmed caught up with him. i think important that we speak out against the actual vision of julian assange who codes and in prison in the united states of america for 175 years people have got to look at what's his given reason was given rise to this situation you've got to look at the. crimes that we kill akes exposed the truth the wiki leaks spoken for example look at the. video which came out in 2010 a video which went around the world and horrified people showing innocent civilians in iraq being gunned down that wouldn't have been seen by other words if it hadn't have been quickly simulate the wall logs in relation to iraq and afghanistan and similarly the treatment of people in guantanamo bay it is because of wiki leaks the world knows about this the.