i i. i. across the lungs fear this weekend supporters a wiki leaks. march in solidarity with the imprisoned whistleblower ahead of his u.s. extradition hearing coming up on monday a number of celebrities were among those to address the protestors in london. sera sera. they're breaking the law to try and get america is not democracy. told. us media claimed russia is backing both republicans and democrats in the 2020 presidential election as anonymous sources warn of another alleged meddling. in. the budget

bust up in brussels an emergency summit seize the blocks leaders failed to agree on a post. just today early evening here in moscow search for me often in london where all top stories but come from war welcome from me kevin and from the art international world news center ok the so straight to the u.k. for our top story wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to begin his u.s. extradition hearing coming up in a london court on monday had a trial his supporters in iran today have been running in london calling for whistle blowers release reports from. i'm here in the center. with protesters who are opposing the possible extradition of julian assange to the us with laws from australia house. it is australian of course to parliament square

and you can see behind me there's a lot of talks going on and some 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 on call in court on monday they'll take place that will crown court on the 24th of february and then it 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 the 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 spread his 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 breaching bail conditions his house his physical and mental health is 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 medics have signed a joint letter urging authorities to take action as i said many high profile people . and there are very clear out here is that roger.

julian a son should america getting a fair trial 00 charges 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 proceedings should even taught if there is a political motivation to it this is 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 paris 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 he 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 all kinds of 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. 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're going to kill me too if i step out of line it's a way of a searching for authority. so that nobody will report on anything that said could

be due to power. committed no crime apart from a minor bail if the 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 it's. exactly what they would have done is 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. this story next to fear us media are throwing yet more meddling accusations east this time it's the democrats front runner for the 2020 presidential election is being dragged in bernie sanders is leading the polls ahead of the vote nomination in the next state of nevada but the washington post is claiming through our name sources that he is receiving russian help his campaign it was not clear what role they're going to play we were

told that russia may be other countries are going to get involved in this campaign and look here's the message to russia stay out of american elections. well seizing the political moment one democrat rival billionaire mike bloomberg jumped on the report to target sunday's online posting a 2016 presidential campaign slogan feel the burn in russia. now the other end of the political spectrum the new york times has published claims that the u.s. president is also a benefactor of alleged russian help donald trump flatly dismissed those allegations. that you see that i see these stories these that do nothing democrats they said today that talking wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. moscow for its part ridiculed the report too and said it expects to see many more such claims in the run up to the election says could tell

it takes a look at the latest meddling accusations than. 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 like that 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 wouldn't so panic to 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 but not 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 among his support said i 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. 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 from moscow's interests not america's and politicians are panicking to it so seriously even tweeted about it poor hillary is also chimed in still a bit saw over the whole 26 didn't 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 bast impeachment felt flat on its face but still how could anyone pick trump over that and jet inspiring democrat candidates on offer take joe biden for example sure he's got a hands 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 is just a good old clean billionaire and bernie sanders are good all oh well i'm just 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. could turn of that in a very very active mindless citroen unravel some of this should be for most abramson the queen seems to responsible for the low thanks but with the sword you make of these latest reports from the brushes attempting to interfere in

a lot of ways in the us presidential election for republican mr trump but also on the other side for birdie and the democrats were to start with this conundrum. well there's a lot of hysteria right now about russian interference and american power to x. been basically this idea this allegation has banned weapons deal a gentleman who's candidates the american to stop does not like so we saw this against trump we saw this against democratic candidate gabbert increasingly now we're seeing you against bernie sanders up it's a little bit like accusing someone of being a terrorist it's very the motion when it's used instrumentally in order to reduce their support or the nature of these allegations are always very similar the details are very sketchy they're made by anonymous security officials there

repeated ad nauseum in mainstream media especially on m.s.n. b.c. which i watched a lot of yesterday. c.n.n. is running the same sort of stories but this is very mainstream we're seeing these reports in the new york times in the washington post and i don't think that the timing is a coincidence of today are the caucus caucus and votes in no part out and i think that there's a real effort to use this hour keesha to try to sink bernie sanders who is the front runner not just in nevada but nationwide on the democratic ticket to be clear you say listen the only sound is he has been reported everywhere the washington post came out with it well hard concrete evidence has it come up with the support these allegations. yeah that's a great question you know and there doesn't need to be any real evidence because when the intel community comes out and they say the evidence when i ask for it also you know of a clandestine and it's

a confidential nature so we never actually got to see what the allegation is the media spin my theory that there are russians who support early sanders and not that they're actively supporting him in any meaningful well. why to just try to stretch this through the logic why if the accusations were proved to be correct would russia want to be supporting the republicans and the democrats doesn't make sense it doesn't make a whole lot of sense but when that point is raised you know i've got the pervious of this sort of conspiracy theory will say what the russians want to do is quote unquote so just so they just want discord in american politics so they might support a republican democrat perhaps multiple time a proxy and republicans it's basically on false appliable thesis what lessons were learned after trump's election all the build up to it round one do you think in

america media sounds like not much. i think the lesson is that the media is putting their finger on the scale objective we covering these candidates that they have favorites and they will do everything possible to do legitimize those they don't like are by basically well known thing these conspiracy skins spirits. are no i don't want to say that there is no international meddling whatsoever in american politics but americans also about all in other countries politics but i think that these allegations or are we overstated oh tremendous amount of exaggeration about how fragile the real political system is in the extent to which foreign governments have an influence on american politicians the fund fighting continues for the rest of this years are going to heat up more and more isn't this just the start of it likes abramson the queen seems to for sponsible statecraft thank you any time. problems in the e.u.

no emergency budget summit has seen the block's leaders fail to agree on how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by bracks it. what has come out of this is data differences are still too large to come to an agreement unfortunately we have 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 grice's we're now seeing them on budget issues so what's the catch here will despite calls for compromise on all sides in friday's negotiations member states were not able to overcome 2 fundamental areas of disagreement at least the 1st sticking point is that the bloc so called frugal 4 do not want the budget to be higher than one percent of its gross national income those countries are denmark austria sweden and the netherlands they also want to keep receiving rebates on the contributions they pay to the $2.00 i spoke to

political commentator hammer he gave me his thoughts on the challenges the unions now facing falling britain's departure. on the one hand it shows clearly now the division that has been only britain germany and only have one or 2 other countries that were met payers into the system were on the on the brakes when it came to inflating the budget and so on and this and the rest was taking and the rest was the majority but germany used to have together with britain. would be taught our and this has been lost so now is there is no or no limit anymore to plunder germany and i think this is this has been secretly all over the time already but now with britain it really it goes away into the open and it's for everybody now. this is all since national law is from also that we can thank spain

with this commit another spot this time over sport between russia and its only it seems that sports persons houses being raided this cause a diplomatic row will tell you more when we come back. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. military thinks. we dare to ask.

this whole business about blaming russians by americans is getting really pathetic because here's a guy who's effectively trying to d.c. humanize a whole group of people slavic people of this case this is remarkably ironic coming from white like. again this is r.t. human rights groups are demanding that a british university suspends a master's program it runs with bahrain's wall academy of policing how does field university flies academics to bahrain despite rights campaigners condemning the kingdom as a torture for prisoner abuse director for the bahrain institute for rights

democracy told us he's got details delegations from 10 prisoners who allege that they have been tortured. we opened those testimonies 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 or torture this is i'm talking about the 1st hand testimony from the victims erik lee 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 and if they were raped and sexually assaulted at the record in me they make threats against their families and just last weekend i happened to know that my own family including my brother in law were subjected to torture at the royal academy

this is what i got from his last chord. well serious serious allegations now in 2017 a u.n. report called for the claims of torture and the ill treatment of prisoners to be more thoroughly investigated after previous complaints it seems made by the rights groups were not reviewed independently or properly now the university refuses to confirm just how much is being paid by bahrain's and says commercially sensitive stuff but it goes on to say it will give consideration to the request and maybe respond in the coming days if it does we'll let you know warm up warm we also asked the bahraini government and university to comment to same thing now the rights group says it's repeatedly called for the cost 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 fired within asylum seekers in britain business the tally in police raid on a hotel that houses russian athletes as created a diplomatic spat it involves a champion russian biathlete who previously said that doping ban the russian embassy in this lease question the grounds for what happened the international biathlon union says it didn't request the search it goes down off reports. all the scandal stems from the accusation 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 logan of 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 the files 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 a fake accreditation to bring doping to bring illegal drugs to his athlete but while only 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. 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. you know how that develops a couple of headlines in brief around the world clashes broke out between police and students in the colombian capital bogota on friday was the usual cover seen as you see this thing officers fired water cannon tear gas the posters who in turn pelted them with projectiles several demonstrators were detained but incident comes as the country's largest teacher's union continues a mass strike disrupting classes for millions of students story in from russia south of it 2 people killed one injured in a gas explosion in a residential building in the south of the country earlier on today that blast is believed have happened in a 3rd floor apartment saturday morning causing several floors then to collapse the authorities say everyone else has been evacuated police are investigating what happened there. israeli officers shot dead

a palestinian man on saturday after he allegedly attempted a stabbing attack just outside jerusalem's old city a 42 year old woman was lightly wounded in the leg when shots were fired at the assailant according to israeli medics. it's exactly 26 minutes past 7 in the evening now next devouring everything in the path of swarms of locusts head from pakistan to china officials there preparing a unique air force italy to fight off the plague like threat kook i. think. right right.

right. feathered friends to the rescue well i know that's it for me so much more on our various social media r.t. dot com our next programs variously in your part of the world are lined up ready to go off the break coming up for me kevin the rest the team working on the scenes right now thanks for watching the saying have a great weekend. the russian state television propaganda machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools we are in an information war.

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