i. supporters of wiki leaks founder julian assange march in solidarity with the imprisoned. head of his u.s. extradition hearing on monday a number of celebrities were among the protesters in. america has not been seen since. i think all he's done is provided a. safe place for information to go on dissidents. what looks like a free press. media. both republicans and democrats 2020 presidential election.

season rocks leaders failed to agree on a post coming. from moscow thanks for joining us. welcome to the program. the supporters of wiki leaks founder julian assange 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. 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 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. is 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 footballers' wives. that kind of thing but it's not free at all when it comes to 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 7 years at the ecuadorian embassy for

asylum wanted to avoid going to jail but now he has been arrested by the british police breaching bail conditions his health 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 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 were very proud roger. courage by the people to come out and. maybe it may just be the tide is turning you could. you know you say what worries everybody here today because they don't believe mainstream america they don't believe the smear campaign the street level. the. us media are throwing yet more mailing accusations at moscow this time as the

democrats front runner for the 2020 presidential election he's being dragged in when he saunders in 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 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 one democratic rival billionaire mike bloomberg has jumped on the report to target saunas online posting his 2016 presidential campaign slogan feel the burn in russian. and at the other end of the political spectrum of 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 that you see that i see these foreign is these the do nothing democrats

they said today that gore wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. 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. takes a closer look at the latest. dear diary i know i can be a bit of a warrior you know better than anyone but this time i really think we might have a serious. situation on our hands it is the conclusion of multiple us intelligence agencies that the russian federation is once again trying to interfere in our 2020 alexion our presidential election again to try to elect donald trump the russians off to american democracy again and there's just so much evidence to back it up this time in

a closed meeting undisclosed intelligence officials told congress that moscow wants to keep orange one in the white house for another few years and 5 unnamed people who apparently are in the loop told us so it's a soul thing i turned on the t.v. and everyone's calling 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 look 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 it wasn't convincing enough trying fod the director of national intelligence and replaced him with a man who supports him that can't be a coincidence can it i mean that's basically trump admitting that he's a criminal stooge and the president of the united states is now helping the president of russia help the president of the united. daves to get reelected now i don't want to exaggerate or anything but this is a national emergency we are now in a full blown national security crisis by trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to congress trump is abetting a russian covert operation to keep him in office for 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 don't trust the i suppose putin's pop 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 fell flat on its face but still how could anyone pick trump over that and just to conspiring democratic 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 as michael bloomberg sure he made a few crude comments apparently about women back in the 80s but these were different times now he's just a good old clean billionaire and bernie sanders good old model was giving his honest opinion when he allegedly said a woman could 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. that emergency e.u. budget summit is soon the books leaders failed to agree on how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by brics it. what has come out of the dark 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 grice's we're now seeing them on budget issues despite calls for compromise on all sides in friday's negotiations the member states were not able to overcome 2 fundamental areas of disagreement the 1st they can point is the ropes so-called frugal 4 don't want you 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 commentator gives 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 there were net 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 is there is no all no limit anymore to plunder germany and i think this is this has been secretly all the time already but now with britain it really it goes went to

the open and it's for everybody else. human rights groups for the morning a british university suspends a master's program it runs with bahrain's royal academy of policing huddersfield university flies economics to bahrain despite rights campaigners condemning the killing them as a prisoner abuse or the rector for the bahrain institute for rights and democracy says it's the detailed allegations from 10 prisoners who allege they've been tortured. we opened those testimonies which came to us their ticket 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 10 testimony from the victims that are detailing how they were abused directly to me 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 where naked the during their interrogation they were blindfolded some of them had raped and they're sexually assaulted had 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. 2017 a u.n. report called for the claims of torture and the ill treatment of prisoners to be more thorough investigated the sort of previous complaints made by rights groups were not reviewed independently the university refuses to confirm how much it's being paid by saying it's commercially sensitive it will give consideration though to the request and respond in the coming days we've also asked the bahraini government and university to comment on 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 enlisted of improving the situation they just simply had 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. the us the phone secretary marcus has taken part in an exercise to determine how washington would respond to a russian nuclear attack in europe that's according to officials and then you go through the conversation that you would have with the secretary of defense and then with the president ultimately to decide how to respond we simulated responding with a nuclear weapon. the war games come as the united states looks the upgrade its nuclear capabilities earlier this month the department of defense requests their military budget of over $740000000000.00 for 2021 as part of that it said it wants

an additional $4000000000.00 for nuclear weapons spending that's a 16 percent increase on the currently allocated amount russia's responded by warning the u.s. is undermining 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. is the is a historian and the director of the nuclear studies institute american university in washington d.c. it's all this that while the exercises themselves are fairly routine he finds the current tensions between the u.s. and russia concerning. it's culture war games are actually pretty common they conduct them on a regular basis. but what's different now is the climate relation between the united states and russia are very very shaky right now 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 and this after each side sheets of one nuclear weapon but much more likely scenario is that it continues to escalate and then we're off. italian police have raided a hotel housing a team of russian athletes competing at the biathlon world championships targeted attacks on the law going off is a champion who was previously hit with a doping about 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 the international biathlon union has denied the raid was made at its request artie's ego stuff the details of all the scandals 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 offices that includes their 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 the experts would analyze them and copy before knows i had a massive. seconds to message my teammates and coach now apparently the measures were taken out of suspicion that kasparov each the coach that he used a fake accreditation to bring doping to bring illegal drugs to to his

athlete but 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 of should be taken at face value and alexander logan for instance of that whole thing happened literally hours before he was shot jewel to participate in a biathlon relay which he is still doing by the way he wasn't called 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 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 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. and germany have sharply criticized israel's plans to build thousands of new homes in occupied east jerusalem or to go out it's in clear violation of international law that was announced by a prime minister netanyahu ahead of israel's 3rd national election in under a year. we're connecting jerusalem connecting all parts of the united jerusalem the ruga built jerusalem which is

a source of great pride and is with great news for the people of israel in stark opposition to the international consensus israel claims the whole of jerusalem as its capital and argues that as the right to build settlements whatever it likes there is also been a staunch support from the troubled ministration which recently released a so-called peace plan that was widely described as an insult to the palestinians the problem is the netanyahu said the 1st of the 5000 new housing units in occupied east jerusalem we put up for sale in the coming days palestinian officials have also reacted furiously to the move and called for international pressure on israel defense and political commentator i mean all and believes that israel has no intention of easing the standoff. both the israelis and palestinians have grown accustomed to such declarations being really not serious enough to marry such a tension the trump peace plan it's simply off the radar it just was announced

and nothing was heard about the scenes and so was another declaration by netanyahu that he was going to annex the jordan valley and the same fate is probably going. to await this particular announcement. and other news from across the world clashes broke out between police and students in the colombian capital goto on friday it with of. officers fired water cannon and tear gas at protesters who in turn help to them with projectiles several demonstrators were detained the incident comes as the country's largest teacher's union continues a mass strike disrupting classes for millions of. 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 your

thirty's say everyone has been evacuated with police investigating the incident. thousands of people in the german city of rallied against racism and xenophobia in the wake of wednesday's far right terror attack in the city 9 people were killed when a gunman stormed 2 she should was some demonstrators carried placards announcing that a of the party which politicians have accused the fermenting division and racial hatred the party has denied that claim. public step devouring everything in their path as swarms of locusts head from pakistan to china officials there appearing a unique air force to fight off the plague like threat. the . woman.

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in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killings rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks to take the only population of belfast tens of thousands square 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 it they were active participants in the burning of schools streets in belfast i think more than a 100 innocent civilians women. as there you can see in yours i mean found out more i was surprised about the extent and the take rates which the collusion was involved in some of those cases that killers would lead to be named into the now we're getting i think it went to the very very top i think if the photos cross the water where all the taste since you thought it was going on and give the go ahead to. join me every

thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the other 100 academic this is a comedy show we're americans in america covering american news it's all foreign agents for a long time viewers of the show you know that's something i've shown again and again is that we americans are super smart and we have just super intelligent debates such as the one that is right now ripping through our democratic primary people one side say yes we want to be like every other industrialized country and have our health care covered by the government and then the other. no don't force

is to join the modern we're. losing everything we've ever worked for because our life was diaby a. but a new study by the highly respected lance at medical journal has ended the debate honestly on medicare for all the study's findings change everything but 1st a couple of points obamacare did not solve all our problems despite the passage of the affordable care act in 2010 america remains an outlier in health care provision it is the only large rich country without universal health coverage and health care costs can be financially ruinous so bamma care was really just enough to make sure americans put their pitchforks back in their holsters for another day which reminds me of something my grandpappy used to say never sit down with your

pitchfork in the halls. and never trust the moloch of cocktails to the guy without arms. but our health care is the best in the work. is something someone would say a if they bit open the mercury thermometer when they were little. american health care is not the best in the specially not for the young and the old american babies are 76 percent more likely to die in their 1st year than babies in other rich countries the us is the most dangerous of wealthy democratic countries in the world for children the most dangerous country for children so maybe those kids we have in the cages at the border don't realize it but we're keeping them there for their own protection. if we really wanted to punish the kids we let them loose into america. so we got crappy health care you would assume we aren't paying as much for it as other big. around the world but if

tax health care expenditure per capita is higher in the usa then any other country more than $37000000.00 americans do not have health insurance and $41000000.00 more have inadequate access to it she says chrysler that this same goes for health care as brazilian wax sings give me cheap and terrible or expensive and wonderful but the one thing i won't stand for is paying $700.00 to look like i got hit by a drug weed whacker. health care and in fact since. so here's the new study from the land set that just blows everything us taking into account both the cost of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the medicare for all act we calculate that a single payer universal health care system is likely to lead to a 13 percent savings in national health care expenditure of crippling to the more

than $450000000000.00 annually medicare for all it would save by $450000000000.00 but there's more to the entire system could be funded with less financial outlay then is incurred by employers and households paying for health care premiums combined with existing government allocations so not only would it save just about every citizen money it would also save money for the ruling elite the only people who would end up worse off would be the parasites who get rich off the insurance industry that is it and is anyone surprised that those people who employ thousands of lobbyists don't want that to happen why are we even asking them it be like if a rabid raccoon were running around terrorizing the whole town in order to decide whether to get rid of the raccoon you ask the tapeworm inside the raccoon.