supporters of the jailed. songs. of his extradition hearing a number of celebrities addressed the protestors in london. has not. said. 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 i'm sure is accused of backing both republicans and democrats in the 2020 presidential election with anonymous sources in the media saying the president wants to help bernie sanders. leaders fail to agree on a post. from

moscow thanks for joining us on our team. welcome to the program. supporters of the songs have been protesting in london and solidarity with the imprisoned. hearing on his possible extradition to the u.s. gets underway on monday. was at the protest. 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 of the bombing future of. journalism. of. journalists. have to be able to scrutinize the wrong 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 share 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 and that kind of thing but it's not free at all when it comes to us things that matter is i think always done is provided. a safe place for information to go on i don't think he's committed a crime at all to 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 and he asked for 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 is 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 are 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 with you you could say you know you say what worries everybody here today they're here because they don't believe. stream now which they don't believe the smear campaign the street level over all these years. 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

bernie sanders 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 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 seizing the moment one democratic rival billionaire mike bloomberg has jumped on the reported target saunas online posting his 2016 presidential campaign slogan feel the burn in russian and the wall so at the other end of the political spectrum the new york times has published claims that the us president is also a benefactor of alleged russian help trump flatly dismissed those allegations against him did you see that i see these far these 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. almost sco for its part as 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 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 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 soul thing i turned on the t.v. and everyone's quoting it a bombshell revelation just makes me panic more than america's democracy once again under attack by a foreign adversary new revelations about russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 election with the hope of getting the president president through a real like that and also to make americans doubt the integrity of the election process this is not a 4 year ago flashback folks this is 2020 and the media wouldn't so panic to jump on the bandwagon just to boost their ratings that would be unconscionable wouldn't it i know you'll say i'm i'm spiraling but can you see how 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 admitting that he's a criminal stooge and the president of the united states is now helping the president of russia help the president of the united. just to get reelected now i don't want to exaggerate or anything but this is a national emergency we are now in a full blown national security crisis by trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to congress trump is abetting a russian covert operation to keep him in office from moscow's interests not america's and politicians are panicking to it so seriously even tweeted about it poor hillary's also chimed in still a bit saw over the whole 26 didn't tast the 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 jet 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 bernie 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. and emergency e.u. budget summit assume the blocks leaders failed to agree on how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by brics or. 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 grazes we're now seeing them on budget issues all this while calls for compromise on all sides in friday's negotiations member states were not able to overcome 2 fundamental areas of disagreement and 1st sticking point is that the blocks so called froogle for what the e.u. budget to be higher than one percent of its gross national income those countries then mark 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 as a 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 in 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 taught our and this has been lost so now there is no no limit anymore to plunder germany and i think vicious this has been secretly all the time already but now with britain it really it goes away into the open and it's for everybody. rights groups are urging

a british university to suspend a police training program it runs in bahrain staff from her school university regularly travel to bahrain to teach her master's course in security science the police recruits at the spot long running out to go sions of systematic torture in the gulf kingdom a director for the bahrain institute for rights and democracy says it's the tail delegations from 10 prisoners who were led they've been 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 thought 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 naked the during their interrogation they were blindfolded some

of them adage they were raped and they're sexually assaulted had their a decade 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. and in 2017 the un report called for the claims of torture and ill treatment of prisoners to be thoroughly investigated after previous complaints made by the rights groups were not reviewed independently the university refuses to confirm how much it's being paid by bahrain saying it's commercially sensitive it will give consideration to the request and respond in the coming days i've also asked the bahraini government and university to comment or 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 anything 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 defense secretary marcus 1st taken part in an exercise that determined how washington would respond to a russian nuclear attack in europe that's according to officials. the scenario included a european contingency where you were conducting a war with russia we simulated responding with a nuclear weapon the war games come as the united states looks to upgrade its nuclear capabilities earlier this month the department of defense requests that a 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 current allocated amount russia's responded by warning

the u.s. is undermining global security. 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. well peter krisna is a historian and the director of the nuclear studies institute at american university in washington d.c. it's always that while the exercises themselves are fairly routine he finds the current tensions between the u.s. and russia concerning these kinds of 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 off one nuclear weapon the much more likely scenario is that it continues to escalate and then we're off. to come this hour a developing story in italy where police have raided the roof of a top russian athletes we look at what's turning into a diplomatic well just after the break. this whole business about blaming russia and america is getting really the static because here's a guy who's effectively trying to dehumanizing a group of people slavic people of this case this is remarkably ironic coming from

white like. freedom of speech is one of the pillars of democracy and also one that in the wist is perceived as being in greatest peril with the left claiming that it's become a vehicle co-opted by the right to spread hate and the right to riding the left as sinister snowflake sense and it's just what are the boundaries of free speech. joining me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. and i get to have you back italian police have raided a hotel housing

a team of russian athletes competing at the biathlon world championships the search target alexander logan off championed by athletes who was previously hit with a doping but his car was also reportedly searched the russian embassy in rome said that the preliminary results of the search showed no evidence of banned substance use the international community and has denied the raid was made at its request igor's done off as the details of all this scandal stems from the accusation that 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 had their hotel room searched by the poly. yes and their personal electronic devices were confiscated by the offices that includes the 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 the 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 reached the coach that he used a fake accreditation to bring doping to bring illegal drugs to his athlete but while only comes to alexander logan of he does have a history of substance abuse he was banned from participating in competitions but then was reinstated the ban was lifted and he was back in the he was back i should say in the big sports but here this whole thing is turning into a bit of a diplomatic scandal because russia is saying that in this particular case the presumption of innocence has to be maintained and that no allegations no accuse

ations or should be taken at face value and alexander logan of 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 pulled from the team also russia has sent all sorts of less as the ministry to the sports ministry is involved they are demanding explanations as to why such measures are being taken and apply to the russian team but one 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. france and germany have sharply criticized israel's plans to build thousands of new homes in occupied east jerusalem calling it a violation of international law the move without by prime minister netanyahu head of israel's 3rd national election in less than a year. we are connecting jerusalem connecting all parts of the united jerusalem the rebuild jerusalem it is a source of great pride and is 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 it has the right to build settlements were ever it like there it's also been receiving staunch support from the trumpet ministration which she recently released a so-called peace plan that was what it described as an insult to the palestinians or prime minister netanyahu has 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 movement called for international pressure on israel defense and political commentator army 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 proceedings 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. in other news from across the world clashes broke out between police and students and their capital will go to hold friday i.

i. officers fired tear gas and water kind of the protesters who fought back by hurling rocks 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 last is believed to have happened in a 3rd floor apartment on saturday morning causing several floors to collapse police are investigating the incident. thousands of people in the german city of hama have rallied against far right extremism in the wake of wednesday's terrorist attack 9 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on 2 she should was targeting people from immigrant backgrounds demonstrators carried placards that out saying we have tea party which politicians have accused of stoking racial hatred a party denies the claims. of finally pakistan is suffering its worst

locust infestation in 20 years devastating crops in put job province swarms of the insects and are heading towards china and beijing is preparing a unique flying force to fight off the invaders. this is.

about staying on the ground has your way in just a few moments for you could use this. so i'm told this will take you through the night in new zealand altie. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. it's not pretty you know the moon. circles modesty.

and you know. when you much for the. minute you do more when they're. not. quite in good sort of. you susan. you know maybe it seems to trace. down. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president i'm sure. somebody wanted. to go on to be pros but what about for 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my. signal.

i'm afshin rattansi and we're going underground ahead of a london trial that could decide the fate of all journalism and the ability of the public to understand how that consent is being manufactured by the powerful coming up on the show are you comfortably numb close to 10 years since collateral murder revealed nato nations indiscriminate targeting of journalists and civilians form of pink floyd from what you want just slam as the british government puts accusing wiki leaks founder julian assange plus agreed in an industry exposed by wiki leaks as london fashion week shuts down its glamorous facade we talked to steve coogan and michael winterbottom about this satire and capitalism featuring the last ever

on screen before mints of u.k. celebrity caroline flack pulitzer ball coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st ahead of next week's hearings on the trial of julian assange still heard nothing from u.k. labor leadership contenders in defense of the wiki leaks publish it. one candidate for the deputy richard bergen has been speaking out going underground firearm have caught up with him. thanks important that we speak out against the actual vision of julian assange who could end up in prison in the united states america for 175 years people have got to look at what's his given reason was given rise to this situation you've got to look at the. crimes that we kill akes exposed the truth that wiki leaks spoken for example look at the. video which came out in 2010 a video which went around the world and horrified people showing innocent civilians in iraq being gunned down that wouldn't have been seen by other words if it hadn't

have been quickly simulate the wall logs in relation to iraq and afghanistan and similarly the treatment of people in guantanamo bay it is because if wiki leaks the world knows about these things because it wiki leaks the world the scene the evidence of these things vitally important in a democracy the. truth is known that we know what the powerful do in our name in the name of every citizen in this country so we need to speak up what we call it says don't need to depend defend press freedom we need to speak out against the extradition of jews in the united states america through feeling these atrocities for revealing these crimes are really revealing these horrors of war and you fair with our son so now with a large majority in parliament where the journal and genocides does get exercise the united states due for parcells and to start cracking down on press freedoms

head. i think one of the great problems with this situation is that it's almost giving a warning to other journalists don't expose war crimes don't expose the truth don't expose the horrors of war because this may happen to you. as well just imagine what would have happened when you look at the vietnam war and the trust that is committed by the nazis and that's america that is a journalist who exposed those atrocities. prosecuted afterwards it's important that the world knows the truth and the horror of war and we must carry on speaking out about this and just finally of course now with john mcdonnell and yourself have a status of underscore for joining us on but i wasn't as much what i was as much vocal support during the run up of the general election that will live upon to be more in full force both in your hands on from now on well before the general election jameco been down on but on myself and others spoke out.