i. number of celebrities were among. those. i think all the sun has provided. a safe place for information to go on. republicans and democrats in the 2020 presidential election as an anonymous source who's.

from moscow thanks for joining us this hour. supporters of wiki leaks founder julian assange have been protesting in london in solidarity with the imprisoned whistleblower comes ahead of his hearing on a possible extradition to the united states which gets underway on monday. that he told. 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

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 people are. serious this. is a crazy. it's more freedom it's about the future of. journalism. of. journalism. 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 us government computer leaking classified documents back in 2010 now he has an awful lot of high profile supporters 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 you're told to 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 footballers' wives about. 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 a hero he's already spent 70 years at the ecuadorian embassy and he asked 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 experts from around the world they think that the u.k. handling of him morning that it's all just being subjected to a 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're very proud of his roger. courage by the people who come out. so maybe it may just be the tide is turning you could. you know you say what worries everybody here today they're here because they don't believe in stream narrative they don't believe the smear campaign the street level

. u.s. media are throwing yet more accusations at moscow this time it's the democrats front runner for the 2020 presidential election who's being dragged there but only saunders is leading the polls ahead of the next nomination vote in the state of nevada washington post claims though 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 maybe 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 to one democratic rival billionaire mike bloomberg has jumped on the report to target saunders online posting his 2016 presidential campaign slogan to feel the burn in russian. and 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 little trump flatly dismissed those allegations though did you see that i see these forests these the do nothing democrats they said today that cotton wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. and moscow for its part has a really cool report and said it expects to see many more such claims in the run up to the election cycle taylor takes a closer look 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. from germany have sharply criticized this or else plans to build thousands of new homes in occupied east jerusalem pointing out it represents a clear violation of international law the move was announced by a prime minister netanyahu head of israel's 3rd national election in of the real year. we're connecting jerusalem connecting all parts of the united jerusalem the rebuilt jerusalem it is a source of great pride and is great news for the people of israel. when in stark opposition to the international consensus that israel claims the whole of jerusalem as its capital and argues that it has the right to build settlements were ever it likes there is also been receiving staunch support from the trumpet ministration which recently released the so-called peace plan that was what he described as an

insult to the palestinians a prime minister netanyahu said the 1st of the $5000.00 new housing units in occupied east jerusalem will be put up for sale in the coming days by listing officials have also reacted furiously to the move and call for international pressure on israel. joining me live now to examine further is political analyst live you're off of it thanks for joining us so good to have you on today just about the timing of this announcement what is behind the guess the main driver behind the prime minister's decision to announce this now. first of all good evening from. as a matter of fact joy the limb was either in will be and will remain for ever. and even died of the still a few that are fucked up fully and we are very happy that even the american the musician. officially. the issue rate no is not concerning joy them.

and give it a computer feel good morning these decision by mr prime minister actually. to you side decision concerning 5. theory a good idea but practically we are a few days before the elections for the knesset a new. means. ellipse. statement much more than the decision by the governor of israel so i don't believe that it will be very effective because in less than 10 days the people of israel we go to vote right know no real decision can be really implemented do you think this announcement is an attempt to gain support and score some political points for the election then. yes i believe

that right now we are in an election process and all the parties even my party trying their best in order to gain more voters and in d.c. sure mr turn you know was not successful to go to i think station after the. proposal for peace plain and there was a lot of frustration a love of disappointment among people who were really believe that it was possible to our next few days just after the washington trip a by mr nathaniel so now this statement needs coming out the world leaves against and. it gives a lot of no use. on something that could have been done more quietly unlike you just said sure. i'll move by mr netanyahu to get more voters

just before the elections you mentioned there on the topic of jerusalem which which has attracted a lot of controversy worldwide you mention it supported by the trouble ministration do you think that support from merica has left israel a netanyahu feeling it can do whatever it wants regardless of international law or condemnation from the wider international community. you know where the suffering state is of surveying and able and state of course we are not alone in the world but concerning juloos the. there is a full on dial consensus that the joy of them at the capitol is only of a day but for ever and nothing and no one will be able to change the situation it was from the baber times on it is doing today it is all capital it will remain so. all right colonel living rough it so political analyst thanks for your opinion here today on r.t. international great to get your take. an emergency e.u.

budget summit seen the blocks leaders failed to agree on how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by brics 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 graces we're now seeing them on budget issues. of despite calls for compromise on all sides in friday's negotiations member states were not able to overcome 2 fundamental areas of disagreement the 1st sticking point is the blocs so-called frugal for don't want the e.u. budget to be higher than one percent of its gross national income as 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's no consensus as to how the 7 year budget should be allocated a political commentator r.t. harm i 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 there 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 top hour and this has been lost so now there is no or no limit anymore to clamber germany and i think vicious this has been secretly all over the time already but now with britain it really let it go that went to the open and it's for everybody else. still to come this hour

a developing story in italy where police have raided the room of a top russian athletes we look at what's turned into a diplomatic route after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the. aura maybe in the shallows. this whole business about blaming russia and america is getting really pathetic because here's a guy who's effectively trying to dehumanizing group of people slavic people of the states this is remarkably ironic coming from white by. a few black and italian police raided a hotel that houses russia has created a diplomatic spot involves a champion russian biathlete who previously served a doping ban here is a parent some parent footage of the athletes car being searched or the russian

embassy in italy stated the preliminary results of the search showed no evidence of doping and international has said it didn't request the search. done of has more details. all the scandal stems from the accusation that the personal coach of the russian biathlete the xander logan of that he used a fake or somebody else's accreditation to move around the competition site now he and the. xander logon and himself have their hotel rooms searched by the police and their personal electronic devices were confiscated by the officers that includes their notebooks and mobile phones here's how to log in to 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 reach the coach that he used the fake accreditation to bring doping to bring illegal drugs to 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 of 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 says 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 one it's another nations team in question and 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 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. nations has published a new report saying 100000 civilians have been killed in afghanistan in the past 10

years with over 10000 killed and 2019 since the united nations assistance mission in afghanistan began systematic documentation in 2009 it has documented more than 100000 civilian casualties with more than 35000 killed and 65000 injured airstrikes provoked 10 percent of all civilian casualties in 2019 the majority 72 percent of which were caused by international military forces the report was released as a weeklong partial truths came into effect in the country between the warring sides the ceasefire comes ahead of planned talks between washington and the taliban on february 29th previous attempts to negotiate peace have been unsuccessful locals in kabul of expressed doubts about how effective this week of reduced violence will be . but that's yet after after this week would only be good memories left how could

one day the killing is permanently stopped and justice prevails after one week is not enough we need permanent peace because of the insecurity and we young people are leaving the country so our investors course be left i'm very happy and optimistic because we all need peace peace would be a big help for a country that's been suffering from nonstop war for more than 40 years. let's cross live now is the director of the crisis research institute mark mellman thanks for joining us so good to have you on today how significant do you think this week of reduced violence between the parties will be in afghanistan kind of bring what the parties are after here. what it might be that if you can avoid any direct clashes between the taliban and the u.s. forces and local allies that will enable the mediators to meet again at the end of next week and say we can now have a truce the big problem is can the taliban and the afghan government agree and who

exactly is the afghan government because whilst this peace process has been taking place between the americans and the taliban their local allies present garni dr abdullah abdullah the chief executive the governor for that ferociously over the long delayed election results for the presidential election so we have the former allies the united states who are setting themselves up for a fight between themselves even as it seems possibly just about possible to ceasefire between the taliban and the u.s. forces perhaps the afghan army to be agreed the aim here of course is to create a last in peace deal not just that a temporary ceasefire like this with talks before have failed do you think that's something that's possible at all. well. it seems to me that if the taliban can get what they want which is the americans will recognize them as a fact in afghanistan and in turn that will pass many afghans streaming towards them thinking they're going to come. back to power a bit of scituate myself with the winners eighties possible to imagine that the

taliban will promise the americans enough for instance they won't allow al qaeda or old islamic state to operate in afghanistan or in areas they patrol for the to be peace between washington and the tell about it but as i say unfortunately there are a lot of other forces inside afghanistan in the north of the country who are very fearful of a passion led taliban regime which would oppress was becks and other non-partial to minorities so you've got that kind of interethnic into tribal rivalry and as i say you've also got the problem the taliban are supposed to negotiate with the afghan government once they've made this ceasefire permanent with the americans allowing that it survives the 1st week the problem with that is who will be the afghan government because at the moment the president and his chief executive are at daggers drawn over who won the election. what about the civilians in afghanistan i mean there at the center of all this between iraq and our place this conflict here civilian casualties aren't decreasing they seem to be getting worse in some

cases here where do we go with out of those numbers surprising 100000 casualties over the last 10 years. certainly not and it may even be an underestimate because you can imagine the difficulty of counting casualties in the mountainous terrain in that disputed terrain how do people actually get out and about to do this kind of survey so i think it's a the very depressing figure that the u.n. has come to but it may actually be a bit of an underestimate and of course it comes on top of 30 years of conflict in afghanistan and so understandably afghans are desperate for peace and i think partly what the taliban calculate is people to some extent will say well actually when the taliban controlled the country in the late 1990 s. whatever was wrong with the harshness of their regime that was largely peace and order in the areas they controlled whereas before 1906 and since 2000 the war we've had interethnic fighting guerrilla warfare between different groups and foreign intervention and sadly that hasn't actually brought either stability or even much

improvement you know a lot of the infrastructure of afghanistan it still was a very poor level has been some building of new schools and hospitals and roads but it had a quote for a country of that size with a population of because of instance in terms of how civilians view that the government itself that the report says pro-government forces are responsible for 29 maybe 30 percent of the casualties do you think enough has been done to prevent those deaths by the government forces and coalition forces as well. well there's a problem that partly the coalition forces and for that matter the more forces are very powerful weaponry have helicopters and aircraft as well as powerful artillery and so on so that tends to cause a lot of so-called collateral damage the other problem though which is really worrying for the afghan government is the. at its own casualties its own forces and police are such that it's not able to replace the ranks so actually the afghan army and police have been true over the last year also even as the taliban has been

reasserting itself so a lot of people in the afghan military fear if the americans really draw down their forces will there be a situation like in south vietnam and after $973.00 that in practice the american former allies will find themselves gobbled up by the opponents in the. in the guerrilla army against i'm sure all right thanks so much director of the crisis research institute thanks for coming on today good to have in the program. the next devouring everything in the path of swarms of locusts head from pakistan to china officials there are preparing a unique ass force to fight off the plague like threat.

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