story. is here. waiting to be reached. supporters of wiki leaks founder julian assange smart should solidarity with the imprisoned whistleblower ahead of his u.s. extradition hearing on monday a number of celebrities are among those who trust protesters itself there in london to. julian assange should get the 00. they're breaking the law to try and get it back america it's not democracy it is. also u.s. media claiming russia is backing both republicans and democrats in the 2020 presidential election as anonymous sources warned of another alleged meddling campaign states. that. they will tell you about

a budget bust up in brussels an emergency summit seize the blocks leaders failed to agree on a post from the bring in live comment on. why they just had a 6 pm early saturday evening here in moscow that through the afternoon more in london there were autopsies about come from well welcome from me kevin now in from the r.t. international world news center here so that let's focus on what's happening in the u.k. the softer new wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to begin his u.s. extradition hearing in a london court this coming monday but ahead of the trial is supporters of the south indian rallying in london calling for the whistle blows released media chooses their own reports back for us. in the center. with protesters who are opposing the possible. addition of julian assange to the us we watch from australia

house is australian of course to parliament square and you can see behind me there's a lot of talks going on anson entertainment in support of putin now this is of course the center of british democracy and supporters they've gathered here ahead of the wiki leaks founder hearing in court on monday they'll take place that will crown court on the 24th of february and then there will be decided whether he is indeed extradited to the u.s. he could be facing 175 years in prison for leaking documents. accusing him of hacking a u.s. government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 now he has an awful lot of high profile supporters including fashion designer vivienne westwood worried about. showing everybody how totalitarian they really are by saying your crime is that you publish crimes american war crimes that you published

america more crimes now that it's not a crime it's in the public interest this is what i'm saying america is not democracy a tall told will shout for people here it's a question of freedom of speech journalists have spoken out and said that he's doing he's doing what other journalists do they can't understand why he's in prison at the moment in belmarsh prison they seem as a hero he's already spend 70 years at the ecuadorian embassy he asked for asylum there wanted to avoid going to jail but now he has been arrested by the british police for breaching bail conditions. his physical and mental health has apparently deteriorated quite badly they've been experts from around the world they've been. handling of him mourning that as being a subject of psychological torture in jail more than $100.00 medics have signed a joint letter urging. authorities to take action as i said many high profile

supporters and they are very proud that roger. julian a son should america getting a fair trial 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 koloff ways that no extradition proceeding should devens dought if there is a political motivation so 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 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 drugged a lot which they probably have to probably go on a concert you know trying to license to spoil but. now he's been in prison for 7 years now in the dorian 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 my oh my god they killed him they can. 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 powerful. committed no crime apart from a minor bail in fridge when he did it it's absolutely clear now that he didn't rape anyone in stock oh 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 to see exactly what they would have done this is being borne 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. now so us media are throwing yet more meddling accusations east this time it's the democrats front runner for the 2020 presidential election has been dragged in bernie sanders is leading the polls ahead of the next nomination voted this to nevada and now the washington post is claiming through sources that he's receiving russian help for

his campaign 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 or see it in a moment pretty quickly one democratic rival billionaire might bloomberg jumped on the report target sanders online posting his 2016 presidential campaign slogan feel the burden but in russian now at the other end of the political spectrum new york times also published claims that the u.s. president is also a benefactor of alleged russian help to donald trump flatly dismissed those allegations. did you see that i see these phoneys these the do nothing democrats 3 they said today that gotten wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. well more to ridicule the report and said it expects

to see many more such claims in the relative to the election so i could tell it takes a look next to the latest meddling accusations 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 years 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. 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 trump thought the director of national intelligence and replaced him with a man who supports him that can't be a coincidence can it i mean that's basically trump 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 from 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 tast i suppose putin's puppet is at it again taken russian help for himself he knows he can win without it and we can't let it happen

i mean it is so unfair 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 chance 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 are good old bernie 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 you 1st get taylor. knew in an emergency budget summit has seen the blocks

leaders failed to agree on how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall that's been left by bricks it. what has come out of this is data differences are still too large to come to an agreement unfortunately we had to suspend this summit. these divisions are there we don't need britain for that they were playing out during the financial crisis a decade ago during the migration grazes we're now seeing them on budget issues or despite calls for compromise in friday's negotiations seems for the blocks more frugal states scuppered hopes of reaching a funding deal to mark austria sweden or the netherlands disagreed with other states about the size of the budget arguing it should not be high the one percent the unions gross national income they also want to keep receiving rebates on the contributions they pay to the you saw though it's united front it's several scrabbling for their best as well by the looks of it as ever let's go to the heart of human europe almost and over to discuss where these talks are going to go

political commentator ike hammer a there are profound is there's disagreement it was never going to be easy it's a big shortfall to make up and everyone's in it to try and get the best deal they can for themselves although of course it's united europe where is this war going to go. i think they have got the 3 problems to solve this is indeed not very easy the 1st problem is of course the huge gap of 74000000000 that the former head of the great britain put into the jackpot and nowadays that people don't know who pay for it because normally you is a community to to go after germany's money so everybody expected that germany as usual. opens the pockets and say ok we can we we do if we fill up their gap but in this time they can't and so at the farm our measurement of one per cent it doesn't fit the 2nd problem is that they want to change the

system of how the e.u. will get the money they want the e.u. one's own taxation power and they want to use this. this problem now to get their hands on the creepy thoughts that takes 5 to to be able to tax the people 1st time as usual and the 3rd problem is that this is highly to do with corruption we had already in the e.c.b. and other entities illegal measurements who crossed a lot a lot of money and now they have to fill up the steps so the you really need even more money than what they are telling now to fill out the illegal things they did in the past and for the last underline described it with the green deal and powering hurt on a huge budget to fill up the steps and all these 3 things to solve the 3 things

problems is a huge things it sounds like it but of course never more than ever the wants to look completely united to stop any more people thinking about abraxas or something like that are they going to reach agreement on these big deal soon or not. i think they will reach agreement but this agreement is what won't be that favorable 4000 european countries and france will basically bankrupt as of a fought so it could be bad to germany and especially the netherlands by giving states want to have more power and more rights through 2. different cases in this for them to stay with us we're going to record some more be on the sayings and bring to our viewers later please the commentator i have a thanks for now it's going to succeed leaving moscow time a lot more to come including a story from italy where police have raided the room of a top russian athlete coming up we look at what's turned into

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again human rights groups a demanding that a british university suspends a master's program it runs with bahrain's royal academy of policing how does field university flies like a democrat to barring despite rights campaigners condemning the kingdom as a torture for prisoner abuse director for the bahraini institute for rights and democracy told us it has detail delegations from 10 prisoners who allege they've

been tortured we opened there was testimony is which came to us directly from this into a prison behind your prison and somebody called us to give us the details of how those individuals were thought of this is i'm talking about the 1st hand testimony from the victims their detailing how they were abused. 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 were naked the during their interrogation they were blindfolded some of them an edge there were raped and sexually assaulted had the they make threats against their families and just last weekend i happened to nor there 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. extremely strong claims well in 2017 a u.n. report called for the claims of torture and the ill treatment of prisoners to be

more thoroughly investigated but previous complaints made by rights groups it seems were not reviewed independently the university for its part refused to confirm how much it's being paid for by bahrain to do this is it's commercially sensitive information but it did go on as well to say it will give consideration to the request and respond in the coming days we also ask the bahraini government and university to comment again if they get back to us will will bring you what they have to say the rights group though says it repeatedly called for the course to be dropped the british government got to stop their own going to training with security forces because if it did anything did the in a set of improving the situation they just simply have them to cover up abuses the place where the teach the course is the place where the prisoners get tortured so it's extremely serious allegations we have extremely strong evidence and can be

even better if i had within asylum seekers in britain. the tally in police raid on a hotel that houses russian athletes has created a diplomatic spat to tell you about it involves a champion russian biathlete who previously served a doping ban and the russian embassy in italy has questioned the groups for what's happened there wrote quest of the grounds of the international birth a union has said it didn't request the search with more eagles down off. all the scandal stems from the accusations of the personal coach of the russian biathlete del xander logan of that he used a fake or somebody else's accreditation to move around the competition site now he and alexander logon to himself have their hotel rooms searched by the police and their personal electronic devices were confiscated by the officers that includes the notebooks and mobile phones here's how to log in a room may describe the situation as he witnessed it they didn't allow us to leave the room but they had no questions for me they took all of our devices put them on

the table but they confiscated our exams devices to copy all the data from his phone and computer we asked them when they would return the devices they answered they didn't know and experts would analyze them and copy before i had a matter of seconds to message my teammates and coach now apparently the measures were taken out of suspicion that kasparov reached the coach that he used the fake accreditation to bring doping to bring illegal drugs to his athlete but when it comes to alexander logan of he does have a history of substance abuse he was banned from participating in competitions but then was reinstated the ban was lifted and he was back in the he was back i should say in the big sports but here this whole thing is turning into a bit of a diplomatic scandal because russia is saying that in this particular case the presumption of innocence has to be maintained and that no allegations no accuse

ations or should be taken at face value and alexander logan for instance of that whole thing happened literally hours before he was shuttled to participate in a biathlon relay which he is still doing by the way he wasn't pulled from the team also russia has sent all sorts of less as the ministry to the sports ministry is involved they are demanding explanations as. to why such measures are being taken and apply to the russian team but when it's another nation's team in question then a completely different set of measures is being taken and not as harsh as russia has to bear the french team also had the same situation at this world cup but their man was only fined $500.00 euros and now the case has been exaggerated to an absurd level i'm 100 percent sure this was well planned now the international biathlon union has launched a legal investigation a legal case against the russian team and against the coach so we'll have to see

how their version of events fares in court. indeed handful of other world news stories in brief now her clashes broke out between police and students in the colombian capital bogota on friday i am. i of a cease fire water cannon tear gas the protesters they in turn health of them with projectiles several demonstrators were detained the incident comes as the country's largest teacher's union continues a mass strike disrupting classes for millions of students. who could be killed and one injured in a gas explosion in a residential building in southern russia the blast is believed to have happened in the 3rd floor apartment on saturday morning causing several floors to collapse 30 say everyone has been taken out of. israeli officers shot dead a palestinian man on saturday after he allegedly attempted to stabbing attack just outside jerusalem's old city of 42 year old woman was lightly wounded in the leg

when shots were fired at the assailant according to israeli medics. next devouring everything apart a swarm of locusts head from pakistan to china officials there preparing unique air force to fight off the plague like threat. let me give this a little. frank frank. frank.

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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 that 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 of pink floyd from what you'll watch is slamming the british government persecuting wiki leaks founder julian assange plus agreed 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 performance of u.k.

celebrity caroline flack pulitzer ball coming up in today's going underground but 1st ahead of next week's hearings on the trial of julian the sondra 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 on the grounds fine ahmed caught up with him. i think important that we speak out against the actual vision of julian assange who could end up in prison in the united states of america for 175 years people have got to look at was 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 these things because they were giving us the world to see the evidence of these things vitally important in a democracy the. truth is known that we know what the powerful do in our name in the name of every citizen in this country so we need to speak up for what we believe says don't need to depend defend press freedom we need to speak out against the extradition of jews in the united states america through feeling these atrocities for revealing these crimes are really revealing the horrors of war and do you fear what boris johnson now with a large majority in parliament western and genocides does get exercise the united states do for parcells and assad cracking down on press freedoms head. i think one of the great problems with this situation is that it's almost giving

a warning to other journalists don't expose war crimes don't expose the truth don't expose the horrors of war because this may happen to you as well just imagine what would have happened when you look at the vietnam war and the trust that is committed by the united. that's america that is the journalist who exposed those atrocities. prosecuted afterwards it's important that the world knows the truth and horror of war and we must carry on speaking out about this and just finally of course now with john mcdonnell and yourself have a status of underscore for joining us on but i wasn't as much what i was as much vocal support during the run up of the general elections that will live upon to be more in full force both in your hands on from now on well before the general election jameco been down but on.