is here. to be reached. turkish. media claims 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. the fueling hatred politicians in germany blame the rise of the alternative for germany party break of wednesday's racially motivated terror attack in. monday's opening extradition hearing. that supporters planned a london rally. to water. sera sera. breaking the law to try and get.

weekend update from r.t. international in moscow on calling break 1st for you this saturday the us media is already pointing fingers this time going after the democrats front runner for 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 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 against crazy bernie sanders. one democratic rival billionaire

mike bloomberg has jumped on the report to target sanders online posting his 2016 presidential campaign slogan feel the burn in russian while the other end of the political spectrum the new york times claims president trump is also a benefactor of alleged russian help moscow dismissing the report and says it expects similar claims to multiply in the run up to the election. these are just the usual paranoid claims which unfortunately we will be hearing more of as the us elections approach of course they have nothing to do with the truth ask it taylor now looks closer at the latest election meddling claims 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 moscow wants to keep orange one in the white house for another few yes' and 5 unnamed people who apparently are in the loop told us so it's a sure 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 through a real look 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 that wasn't convincing enough triumph i'd 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 and the president of the united states is now helping the president of russia help the president of the united. daves 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 point henries also chimed in still a bit saw over the whole 2016th test i suppose putin's pop is at it again taking russian help for himself he knows he can win without it and we can't let it happen i mean this is someone fat the democrats are just being unlucky the mourner report was a boston pietschmann felt 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 good old bunny mo was

giving his honest opinion when he allegedly said a woman couldn't 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. separately the washington post is facing a backlash for overplaying the importance of the leaks ahead of the election moral matter in a little over 10 minutes time. next the leading politicians in germany have lashed out at the anti immigration alternative for germany party in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated mass shootings of 2 bombs in an hour in which 9 were killed the lawmakers argue that the a.f.p. has helped create an atmosphere of hatred. at the 1st glance it looks like it was a lone wolf what's happening when one man carried it out but there were those who had provided him with ammunition and the a of these definitely among them gifted 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 really coalition as well as the left party and the greens as well coming out and accusing alternative 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.p. bear responsibility for that too 9 people were killed this week 2 shooting incidents at 2 separate she should bars in the city of homs now all of those that were killed were from an immigrant background most of them were young people as well we heard from one eyewitness to describe for us the scenes of that night and

condom on 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 when we all fell down and hit the shooter had emptied his magazine aside then and just run away. from my eyes i was ok i was still alive but i just didn't want to believe it was real i asked units of 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 a shoulder yet he didn't see the blood as he was wearing a coat he said jamiroquai i stood up and saw interest lying is rather nice and it was doubtless like the others were lying there too i went out and peeped into chaos . the people in their route 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 the side of the 7 other the 42 year old owned 2 weapons

legally the handgun that he used to carry out the attack had been modified to allow it to release bullets quick is 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 they have spokes person claims the german establishment is desperately trying to link the atrocity to his party. the killer was 'd a paranoid he was suits because of a threat nic and the police said it very soon on twitter. this guy had no connection to any any political group to any. extremist to any right wing groups and what this world is terrible is the situation that the the all political parties are trying to stick it somehow to the a.f.p. this is the only way how can they manage to fight against us because they have no

real political arguments and pull in the political discussion so therefore they are always just trying to push us into a right wing corner so that 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 in my mind but we are not free. to express what we want our people are permanently under a tag of left extremist and you know what what happened now is that we are putting in the corner where we don't belong. wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to begin his u.s. extradition hearing in a london court on monday as supporters of plan protests over the weekend with that report a rock what a water is heading the rally and scientists 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 the former pink floyd front man told us why he's protesting this saturday. julian assange should merican getting a fair trial 00 charmes breaking the law to try and get him there there is an extradition treaty. between the u.k. and the united states which has a number of articles of the forethought to koloff ways that no extradition proceedings should devens dought if there is a political motivation so it this isn't a political course it is 100 percent political so 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 which. 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 magistrate. it's really really moving craig's a friend of his and he's you know chilling could you could hardly remember a zone name. he maybe that got a drug a law which they probably have probably gotten on all kinds of you know trial lawyers to spoil but. now he's been in prison for 7 years now in the ecuadorian embassy and now and despite some security place at boma it's disgusting he hasn't committed a crime. the case is crucial only if you believe in the rule of law and freedom of speech and he 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 is all my god they killed him they're going to kill me too if i step out of line it's a way of a search for authority so that nobody will report on anything that said conveyed to palau or. committed no crime apart from a minor bio infringement he did it's absolutely clear now that he didn't rape any. stocco 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 actually die it's the success that they would have done this 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. human rights groups are demanding that a british university suspends a master's program it runs with bahrain's royal academy of policing how does feel university flies academics to bahrain despite rights campaigners condemning the

kingdom as a torture for prisoner abuse the director for the bahrain institute for rights and democracy says it has detailed allegations from 10 prisoners who allege they've been tortured. we opened those testimonies which came to us directly from this into the prison behind your prison and somebody called us to give us the details of how those individuals or tortured this is i'm talking about the fears 10 testimony from the victims that are detailing how they were abused. there is a consistent account on many of them were subjected to physical and psychological torture some of them were subjected to electric shocks some of a lot of them were stripped naked that during their interrogation they were blindfolded some of them had raped and sexually assaulted had the 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. in 2017 a u.n. report called for the claims of torture and the treatment of prisoners to be more thoroughly investigated because said previous complaints made by rights groups were not being reviewed independently at the university he refuses to confirm just how much is being paid by bahrain saying that information is commercially sensitive but it does say it will give consideration to the request and respond in the coming days we've also watched the bahraini government and the university for comment as well the rights group says it's repeatedly called for this 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 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. this is our international the developing story for you from italy this saturday where police have raided the room of a top russian afflatus descended into a diplomatic route will tell you all about it among all stories after this. lead.

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 the spear in dramatic development that only really going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down in. new this hour an italian police raid on a hotel that houses russian athletes has created a diplomatic spat it involves a champion russian biathlete who previously served a doping ban

a russian embassy in italy has questioned the legitimacy of the search let's go live now to correspondent igor stan of or is it clear yet why the police moved on the russian athlete well it is the international biathlon union has opened a legal case against his personal coach against this athlete's personal coach for apparently using a fake accreditation now the rooms are as you've said have been searched their mobile devices including such things as notebooks and mobile phones were confiscated and they were taken by the tally and police for the examination now the head of russia's biathlon union was with this russian athlete and with his coach at the time when as the events were unfolding here's how he described the situation in a phone call to us. i mean there are you know there's that little bit with you it's almost. impossible for us to do a set of radio on us the little girl is really annoyed xander observable you. see

the former is becoming more. than the person acquitted him as a bit early and there. is a moment. that will see it done the. only as a belgian is up a little he'll still upset come. on themself or national group or glitches personally in the. school now this whole case apparently seems from duping suspicions some are saying that this personal coach might have used he's being accused of using their credit taishan to try and smuggle some drugs some illegal drugs to his athlete now this has not been proven but anton logon and he does have a history of doping abuse he was disqualified for 2 years but reinstated after that after the ban on his participation in competition on competing was lifted so

now the russian side is adamant that the presumption of innocence should be maintained in this case and indeed it is turning into something of a diplomatic spat because all sorts of official bodies are being involved in this conflict right now including russia's sports ministry here's their statement. the russian ministry of sports is aware of searches conducted by italian police this morning in the rooms of alexander logan and his course alexander kasparov which the russian sports minister is gathering all the relevant information on the incident from the russian biathlon union or in close contact with the russian embassy in italy too and will keep a close eye on for the developments while anton logon of he will be participating in today's biathlon relay this has been already announced by russia. biathlon union it's official information he will be competing so he's not been taken off of the team list but still will have to see how this there are these events will be

unfolded and how the dog peeing on the allegations will fare in the court. ok all right for now he gorged on our facts for the. next the washington post result of the headline which originally suggested elites should play a key role in picking the country's president it comes after the outlook found itself in the spotlight on mine. democracy dies in darkness unless darkness is what the elites need to regain election in which case maybe democracy isn't all that great anyway there goes to run the headline that says silence presents the wealthy are speaking of the current us election system primaries take place at the beginning of an election year to select a candidate or in some states every citizen can vote but in others only registered voters however it's not just votes that secure the nomination it's also down to the number of delegates they get depending on the size of the state of the media analysts lionel believes the article is simply a bold move for attention on. first of all as 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 yore from watergate it's over with not only that the print medium of this country newspapers are closing the new york times is 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. us a slap get more sanctions on iran this time over friday's parliamentary elections

washington's targeting the council that candidate for excluding thousands from taking part of the us is blacklisted 5 council members one of them is now back saying the restrictions have nothing to do with supposedly supporting democracy. even without boycotts and sanctions on members of the guardian council the us regime has shown that it has nothing to do with democracy it's a bisan is to establish dictate to sit and milk the region like a cow we are now more determined to lend our votes to the people. even after a huge number of candidates were ruled out some 7000 were vying for 290 seats in parliament but the results are expected to be announced later this saturday it's the 1st nationwide ballot since u.s. sanctions against iran were reinstated in 2018 washington stepped up its pressure on to run after withdrawing from the 2015 iran nuclear deal the election comes as to iran 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 for the u.s. to openly interfere in foreign elections i think that it's fine for the west to be pointing the finger at iran because that means they're actually quite in 4 fingers at themselves showing because the world now has come to last america at the elections that they've been holding the force and the wise after but i think there's also a dark message in the 1st and i think that is to actually iranians inside iran and polarized. the united states wants to give the impression that is on the side of will who have who are pro west and their dark reformist there's nothing more outrageously all you know than obvious about the interference in 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 have that is there we would approve of more that's basically what it is. a long

standing tradition is no longer to everyone's taste in the german city of cologne a special festival cake called selling one of the city's play can resist a debate online because some see it as pandering to racist stereotypes known as chocolate kisses the treats have overly large lips and according to some are offensive the 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 can visit from your bakery disgusts me the point is that the chocolate covered marshmallows are made to show racist stereotypes with eclipse but people in cologne that we spoke to still have an appetite for their controversial confectionery knowledge but mr martin no i do not think it's racist it's a tradition of this does not refer to anyone in particular really so i think it's all right silence provides does russia says it's always been this way i see nothing racist about it and we saw no how is it racist it looks nice i'm over

it simple as the color of chocolate i wouldn't think of turning things 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 by behold the company smith hello to me even black and white shots that have nothing to do with racism something this is rather a matter of tastes they taste different out of those. swarms of locusts head from pakistan to china officials there are preparing a unique force to fight off the plague like threat. frank frank.

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an end so it's time to take a swing around the globe to analyze how markets performed a made global uncertainty and could there be a new frontier for biohacking today we break down the recent reports on the practice and what concerns there are around the sector. let's go and dive right in . china has suspended more punitive tariffs on imports of u.s. goods in response to its troops in the trade war these goods include industrial components a medical and factory equipment and this comes at a time china is struggling to contain the mounting costs of the viral outbreak that has closed factories stores and slowed exports while china hinted that the outbreak constituted as a force majeure and therefore will have to delay fulfilling its commitments under phase one reuters now reports quote the u.s. government still expects china to honor its commitments to which it had agreed late last year many analysts didn't see this happening even before the outbreak started and now it looks increasingly.