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that's what he's facing. the. supporters of. darcy with. us on monday a number of celebrities were among those to address protestors. america is not seen since. i think all the sun is provided. a safe place for information to go on they don't want dissidents they don't they want what looks like a free press. us media claim russia is backing both republicans and democrats in the 2020 presidential election as anonymous sources warn of.
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an emergency e.u. summit sees the rocks leaders fail to agree on a post funding plan. live from moscow thanks for joining us. welcome to the program supporters. of songs have been protesting in london in solidarity with the imprisoned whistleblower this comes ahead of his hearing on possible extradition to the united states which gets underway on monday but he got the details. i'm here in the center of london with protesters who are opposing the possible extradition of julian assad to the u.s. we watch from australia house as 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
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course the center of british democracy and supporters they gathered here ahead of the wiki leaks founder hearing on call in court on monday people are. serious this. it's a crazy. it's more freedom it's about the future of. journalism. of. journalists. have to be able. to 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 and they worried about. showing everybody how
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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 i think all he's done is provided. a safe place for information to go on i don't think he's committed a crime at all what governments want to know is total control of information and that means they don't want dissidents they don't they want what looks like a free press so it can sort of tell nasty stories about football as well. i've seen that kind of thing but it's not free at all when it comes to talking about things that matches the people here it's a question of the freedom of speech journalists have spoken out and said that that's all 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
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a hero he's already spent 7 years at the ecuadorian embassy for asylum wanted to avoid going to jail but now he has been arrested by the british police reaching bail conditions his house his physical and mental health is apparently deteriorated quite badly that experts from around the world they think that the u.k. handling of him morning that song is being subjected to psychological torture in jail more than 100 medics have signed a joint letter urging authorities to take action as i said many high profile supporters and they are very proud of his. courage by the people who come out and. maybe it may just be that the tide is turning left with you that you could. you know you say what worries everybody here today because they don't believe mainstream america they don't believe. me
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a campaign the street level. us media are throwing yet more milling accusations at moscow this time it's the democrats front runner for the 2020 presidential election he's being dragged in bernie sanders is leading the polls ahead of the next nomination vote in the state of nevada the washington post claims through unnamed 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 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 moment one democratic rival billionaire mike bloomberg has jumped on the report to target saunders online posting his 2016 presidential campaign slogan feel the burn in russian. the other end of the political spectrum the new york times has published claims that the us president is also
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a benefactor of alleged russian help from flatly dismissed those allegations did you see that i see these stories these the do nothing democrats they said today that gotten wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. and moscow for its part has ridiculed the report and said it expects to see many more such claims in the run up to the election so as to tailor takes a closer look now at the latest actions. 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 u.s. 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
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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 wants to keep orange one in the white house for another flu year is 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 reelected 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 but not proof this latest report is i mean i agree i did read the article which published the info for
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us and there isn't a single concrete fact or 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 that can't be a coincidence can it i mean that's basically admitting that he's a kremlin stooge and the president of the united states is now helping the president of russia help the president of the united states. 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
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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 26 didn't tast i suppose putin's popular 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 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 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 2 clean billionaire and bernie sanders ah good old bunny mo was
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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. marks abrams from the queen's institute for responsible state craft believes the allegations of being used to discredit. well there's a lot of hysteria right now about russian interference and american power to tax in basically this idea this allegation has been weapon dealer general myers kiran it's the american was stabbed me does not lie so we saw this against donald trump it increasingly now we're seeing here. suck it's a little bit like a husing someone being a terrorist it's very the mole and it's used instrumentally any other church reduce their support or the nature of these allegations are always very civil the
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details are very sketchy they're made by a lot of very secure these officials. in the mainstream media and i think that there's a real effort to use this power game show to try to see bernie sanders who is the front runner not just in nevada but nationwide on the democratic ticket. in more on the race for the white house the washington post is facing a backlash for overplaying the importance of the top one percent of the head of the election on that in just a minute. and emergency e.u. budget summit has been seen the blocks leaders fail to agree on just how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by brics or. what has come out of this is that the 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
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they were playing out during the financial crisis a decade ago during the migration prices we're now seeing them on budget issues. the spark calls for compromise on all sides in friday's negotiations member states were not able to overcome 2 fundamental areas of disagreement the 1st they can point is the bloc so-called frugal 4 do not want the e.u. budget to be higher than one percent of its gross national income and those countries denmark austria sweden and the netherlands also want to keep receiving rebates on the contributions they pay to the e.u. in addition there is no consensus as to how the 7 year budget should be allocated a little commentator gave us his thoughts on the dispute. 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 into the system were on the on the
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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 top hour and this has been lost so now is there is no all no limit anymore 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 else. still to come this hour a developing story in italy where police have raided the room for top russian athletes we'll look at what's turned into a diplomatic route to this. the
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world is. shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. we're still in an era of resource colonialism again this is a big risk and the one big thing that could really inhibit the kind of electric vehicle revolution that a lot of us want to see is if we can't resource the battery components in a sustainable ethical way then it's not going to be
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a successful revolution. ok back to the program human rights groups of the morning but a british university suspends a mosque this program it runs with bahrain's ruler academy of policing how to steal to give us the flaws economics to bahrain despite rights come by and is condemning the kingdom as a tool to help the prisoner abuse the rector for the bahrain institute for rights and democracy said the detailed allegations from 10 prisoners who allege they were 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
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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 where the naked during their interrogation they were blindfolded some of them and if they were raped and their sexually assaulted had their they make threats against their families and just last weekend i happen to know they're 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. 2017 a u.n. report called for the claims of torture and ill treatment of prisoners to be more thorough investigated of the previous complaints made by rights groups were not reviewed independently now the university refuses to confirm how much it is being paid by bahrain's and its commercially sensitive it will give consideration to the
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requests that respond in the coming days we have also contacted the bahraini government and university to comment the right group says it's 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 anything did the enlisted of improving the situation they just simply have them to cover up abuses the place where they 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. and other headlines at a time when police raided a hotel that houses a russian athletes as created a diplomatic spat it involves a champion russian biathlete who previously served a dope the russian embassy in italy has questioned the grounds of what happened the
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international biathlon union has said it didn't request the search auntie's eagles fan of scott but he told. 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 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 to 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
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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 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
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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 we do have an update on that story just coming in from the russian embassy in italy saying the mitchell results of that search have not confirmed the presence or the use of any substance abuse or doping that is the news we're just getting coming and obviously we'll keep across that
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story bring you any more details as we get. back to the race for the white house in the state the washington post has also the headline which originally suggested the elites of politics on the financial world should play a key role in picking the next u.s. president comes after the outlet found itself in the spotlight on. democracy dies in darkness and less darkness is what the elites need to rig an election in which case maybe democracy isn't all that great anyway there goes through unheard line that silence presents the wealthy are speaking. or of the current us election system primaries take place at the beginning of an election year to select candidates in some states every citizen can vote and others only registered voters who are 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 legal and media analysts believe the article is simply
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a bold move for attention. 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. stands for something as far as the washington post goes it is a rag it is a hospital mop it is it is it is nothing it's it the glory days of your 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 was one last gasp effort to put something in there to get people to talk about it. in other news around the world clashes broke out
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between police and students in the colombian capital bill go to on friday. night. the to it was officers fired tear gas and water cannon at the protesters who in turn pelted them with projectiles several demonstrators were detained of the incident comes as the country's largest teacher's union continues a mass strike disrupting classes for millions of. people have been killed in one incident a gas explosion in a residential building in southern russia the blast is believed to have happened on the 3rd floor apartment on saturday morning causing several floors to collapse or 30 say everyone has been evacuated with police investigating the incident. thousands of people in the german city of homs have rallied against the racism and xenophobia in the wake of wednesday's far right terror attack there 9 people were killed when a gunman stormed 2 she should was some demonstrators carried placards the nelson of
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in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks the technion the catholic population in belfast tens of thousands are forced to flee their homes come up with strike and put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the solution was involved in some of those cases that killers would later be named said to the enemy getting i think it went to the very very top i think if the phones crossed the water where all the taste since you thought was going on and gave the go ahead.
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television propaganda machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools we are in an information war. the can change the world tomorrow. we send out. you tube videos the sleepless nights you today it's the longest network. pushing brushes russia russia russia. to feel the paper that i wrote cities are suitable and i really have to put to see you then on our team. who are so proud and still. are just getting the number.
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why have you not shut down our t.v. on you tube it's a propaganda machine mr walker. a lot of young people know nothing about julian and joel we've. you know julian astound you do you know anything about this man and what happened to him do you want to know about that 10 years ago. wiki leaks released a whole lot of information about the crimes that were being committed by. a war crimes but mostly the us governments and particularly the murder of innocent
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civilians. or the country is just pretend and this is the 1st thing they think think about it kind of forced us to acknowledge it's you know we couldn't ignore it and. he's an idealist he's on a mission he's on a mission to harm. people to the information. we've received. but this comes with the prime. loan isn't being charitable he's made while he was in the ecuadorian embassy for 8 years 7 or 8 in. a long time he spent in the prisons basically and that now he's being so many months in the present. there are a lot of people who don't want him to.
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