the killers would later be named. beginning i think it went to do very very top i think it is. the water where politicians you know on the go ahead. supporters of wiki leaks founder julian assange shm options solidarity with the imprisoned whistleblower ahead of his u.s. extradition hearing on monday a number of celebrities were among those to address the protestors in london. america is not good enough to see told it's a total sham 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's backing both republicans and democrats in the 2020 presidential election as anonymous sources warn of another alleged meddling

campaign stateside. and other bust up in brussels an emergency e.u. summit sees the rocks leaders failed to agree on a post accept funding plan. live from moscow good to have you with us here tonight there are things about hawkins welcome to the program. now supporters of julian songs that we could 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 they were jeter was there. 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 and you know his heart 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 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 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 show 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 why. 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 and they can't

understand why he's in prison at the moment in belmarsh prison they seem as a hero he's already spread the 7 years at the ecuadorian embassy and he also asylum 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 has apparently deteriorated quite badly they've been experts from around the world they've been condemning the u.k. handling of him mourning that it's all just 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 supporters and they're very proud of his roger. courage by the people that come out today. so maybe it may just be that the tide is turning left you could. you know you say what worries everybody here today they're here because they don't

believe bank stream narrative they don't believe. the street level. u.s. media are throwing yet more meddling accusations at moscow this time it's the democrats front runner for the 2020 presidential election who's being dragged in. is leading the polls ahead of the next nomination vote in the state of nevada and the washington post claims through unnamed sources that he's at the receiving end of 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 seizing the moment one democratic rival billionaire mike bloomberg has jumped on the report to targets on his online posting his 26000 presidential campaign slogan feel the burn in russian. at the under this political spectrum the new york times

has published claims that the us president is also a benefactor of alleged russian help donald trump flatly dismissed those allegations the. did you see that i see it is far is 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 the ridicule the report and said it expects to see many more such claims in the run up to the election so ask it taylor takes a closer look at 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 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 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 flu yes' and 5 unnamed people who apparently are in the loop told us so it's a shelf 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 alexion 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 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 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 promised it would 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 trying fight the director of national intelligence and replaced him with a man who supports him i 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 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 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 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 he's just

a good old 2 clean billionaire and bernie sanders our good ole bunny well 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. emergency e.u. budget summit is soon the books leaders failed to agree on how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by bricks or. what has come out of 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 they were playing out during the financial crisis a decade ago during the migration grazes we're now seeing them on budget issues. calls for compromise on all sides in friday's negotiations member states were not

able to overcome 2 fundamental errors of disagreement the 1st sticking point is that the so-called blocs for do not want the e.u. budget to be higher than one percent of its gross national income 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's no concerns as to how the 7 year budget should be allocated political commentator to 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 of one or 2 other countries that were met 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. the top hour and it has lost so now is there is no no limit anymore germany and i think vicious this has been secretly all the time already but now with it really that it goes over into the open and it's for everybody else. human rights groups are demanding the british university suspends a master's program it runs with bahrain's royal academy of policing how this field university flies economics through despite rights campaigners condemning the kingdom as a torture hub for prisoner abuse a director for the bahrain institute for human rights and democracy said it has 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 those individuals or

tortured this is i'm talking about the fears tend to stir many 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 at age they were raped and their sexually assaulted had their record in they make threats against their families and just last weekend i happened to know 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 when a 2017 u.n. report called for the claims of torture and ill treatment of prisoners to be more thoroughly investigated of the previous complaints mobile rights groups were not reviewed independently well the university refuses to confirm how much it is being

paid by bahrain saying it's commercially sensitive it will give consideration to the request and respond in the coming days we've also asked the bahraini government and university to comment on the story of the rights 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 any think it did the in a set off improving the situation they just simply had 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. in other news around the world clashes broke out between police and students in the columbia gavel goto on friday . or as. officers fired water cannon and tear gas at the protesters who in turn held at

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. to people have been killed and one injured in a gas explosion in a residential building in southern russia the last is believed to have happened in a 3rd floor apartment on saturday morning causing several floors to collapse or 30 say everyone has been evacuated police are investigating the incident. and thousands of people in the german city of hama have rallied against racism and xenophobia in the wake of wednesday's far right terror attack there 9 people were killed when a gunman stormed to she should was some demonstrators carried placards announcing the a.f.d. policy which politicians have accused the fermenting division and racial hatred party denies that claim. still to come this hour

a developing story in italy where police have raided the room of a top russian athlete we look at what's turned into a diplomatic row after this break. 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. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths.

or a maybe in the shallows. this whole business about blaming russians americans is getting really the static because here's a guy who's effectively trying to dehumanizing group of people slavic people on this case this is remarkably ironic coming from like like. italian police have raided a hotel housing a team of russian athletes competing at the biathlon world championships the search target that xander logan offered champion biathlete he was previously hit with a dope and burned his car was also reportedly searched the russian embassy in rome said the preliminary results of the search showed no evidence of banned substance

use international while phony union has said it didn't request the search out of as more details. 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 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 a 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 deployed. mattick 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 of should be taken at face value and alexander logan for instance of that whole thing happened literally hours before he would show jewel to participate in a biathlon relay which he is still doing by the way he was and pulled from the team

all saw russia has sent all sorts of letters 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 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 $500.00 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. next their devouring everything in their path as swarms of locusts head from pakistan to china officials there are preparing a unique air force to fight off the plague like threat. i. i

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a classified exercise at the time and how washington would respond to a russian nuclear attack in europe according to officials. the scenario included a european contingency where you are conducting a war with russia and russia decides to use a low yield limited nuclear weapon against the science on nato territory and then you go through the conversation that you would have with the secretary of defense and then with the president on similar to decide how to respond with simulated responding with a nuclear weapon. and the exercises come as the u.s. seeks to upgrade its nuclear capabilities earlier this month the department of defense requests that a military budget of over $740000000000.00 for 2021 it said it wants an additional $4000000000.00 for nuclear weapons spending that's a 19 percent increase on the current budget russia's condemned what it says about the washington's undermining of global stability. we condemn such actions because firstly they clearly demonstrate washington's readiness to follow the path of

confrontation and further lower the trash for using nuclear weapons instead of focusing on efforts to strengthen the arms control system including the nuclear system the united states is playing an extremely dangerous game for the school about speed because they get a professor of history and the director of the nuclear studies institute at american university sir thanks for joining us good to have you on today i mean this is something you would expect in a in a cold war era it was that i mean just how common is it for the military to practice these sorts of games these sorts of scenarios. it's kind of a war games are actually pretty common they conduct them on a regular basis. but what's different now is the climate. the relation between the united states and russia are very very shaky right now it was recently he's very recently got the bulletin of the atomic scientists move the hands of the doomsday clock to 100 seconds before midnight that's the closest it's ever been

made in january 28th seen they moved it to minister before midnight the last time they done that was back in 1953 after the united states and soviet union tested their hydrogen bombs the fact that they moved to so close again is a reflection of just how carious the global situation is now in this exercise that you were mentioning this is this is jewish and is the belief is that if there was a war between russia and nato that nato would have some conventional advantage and that russia would respond with a tactical nuclear weapon and scald a strategy of escalating to deescalate that would show nato how serious russia was and would hopefully to terror further attack and there are 2 possibilities nato could respond with conventional weapons or it can respond with nuclear weapons.

over the years they've simulated this kind of nuclear war limited nuclear war many times what usually happens is that it escalates out of control there is almost no scenario in which a limited nuclear war ends after each side shoots off one nuclear weapon the much more likely scenario is that it continues to escalate and then we're off initial. russia and america obviously they're not the only nuclear powers and you mentioned the doomsday clock they're moving towards towards midnight is that because of this movement towards deploying. nuclear weapons where something that was perhaps a manageable in previous decades is now a potential reality. it has something to do with the low yield nuclear weapons you know beyond that situation is quite unstable right now united has very little trust between the united states and russia we're dismantling our entire nuclear

architecture it began in 2002 when the us announced it was doing away with the a.b.m. treaty it was shortly after that the russian began developing its countermeasures and then the j c p o a round nuclear deal and the i.n.f. treaty which would abrogated and now the only one left really that significant is the new start treaty and putin has asked trump to extend the new start treaty when it expires less than a year from now in early february 2021 and trump has so far not responded trump says he wants to have a broader treaty that includes china china has shown no willingness at all to go along with that you have to remember that united states and russia have about 93 percent of the world's nuclear weapons between us and china on the other hand has about 290 or 300 nuclear weapons so china's nuclear policy and sunda methley

different in the u.s. and the russian nuclear policy so china sees little interest in going along with this kind of agreement but if the united states and russia do not extend the new start treaty and the dangers we go back to in 1980 s. style nuclear arms race trump has said he welcomes a nuclear arms race that is insanity and that's what trump is looking toward and he says we're going to win a nuclear arms race well maybe the united states would win a nuclear arms race but the world loses in a nuclear arms race you have to remember that about 1985 they were ahead accumulated the equivalent of 1500000 hiroshima bombs 1500000 and there were about 7 close 270000 nuclear weapons in all. right now we're down to about 14020 percent of what we used to have which is still insane and certainly more than enough to trigger a nuclear winter and pretty much all life on the planet but because we even know

that the latest studies show that a limited nuclear war between india and pakistan reach 100 here is shamus as nuclear weapons were used could kill up to 2000000000 people so in 5000000 tonnes it's broken to the atmosphere straw agriculture minister so we're not playing with toys here we're talking about some new measures. actual threat you know of out of time you know what times we live in let's treaties that can be followed for the sake of humanity peter because that professor of history and director of the nuclear studies is a shoot at american university. that's it for now back in 30 minutes time with the latest join us again. 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

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