washington accuses moscow with this information campaign to undermine the global response to the corona virus as cases outside china spike in europe and asia. israel exchanges fire with the militant group in the syrian capital and in gaza the i.d.f. one of its members of a border fence and then removed his body with a bulldozer. being described as a far reaching and historic trial for journalism wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to begin his u.s. extradition hearing in london this monday where across it throughout the day.

by this monday morning at 8 start of a new week here l.t. international from moscow money is called embrace 1st for you this hour the number of coronavirus patients located far from the deadly epicenter in china has suddenly spikes it's really put emergency measures in place over the weekend with 150 reported cases and 3 deaths it's europe's 1st major outbreak well iran has the highest number of deaths outside china with 8 reportedly dead now the authorities in italy cancel the carnival in venice major sporting events were postponed as well and entire towns and communities were put on lockdown in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday with 100 $61.00 people confirmed ill taking the total there to $800.00 the government also temporarily shut down religious movements and also a cult whose members make up more than half of the known infections. meanwhile the united states is accusing russia of this information campaign to spread alarm and

blame washington for the coronavirus release. by spreading disinformation about coronavirus russia malign actors are once again choosing to threaten public safety by distracting from the global health response. the u.s. state department claims thousands of fake social media accounts are advancing so-called russian talking point the messages apparently call it an american biological weapon being used to wage economic war on china accounts linked back to russian proxies are also being accused of undermining the global response more on that from daniel hawkins. it's hard to find almost any modern day referendum election or protest movement that hasn't been tied in some way by government officials intelligence reports all media outlets to russian meddling it seems virus pandemics are no exception to the rule russia's intent is to sow discord and undermine u.s. institutions and alliances from within including through coercive mind influence campaigns dismissed the allegations as

a deliberate smear campaign it will be hard for most of us to find out what exactly russia is accused of the answer apparently lies in the report prepared for the state department's global engagement center strictly not for public viewing which details evidence of russia's alleged bad behavior and if one compares the charges against russia in the secretive report to what moscow has actually done you get 2 very different pictures. of. well if it's conspiracy theories u.s. officials are looking to find looking closer to home could do the job u.s. officials publicly cast doubt on official information coming out of china and some

later retracted allegations that the corona virus outbreak. actually came from a chinese bioweapon lab were quick to emerge stateside just a few miles away from their 3rd market is china's only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that in research as human infectious diseases they have lied consistently about this virus to me a senior administration official told me that the united states does not have quote high confidence in the information coming out of china at this point the delegate show has called for all sides and take extra care with trading barbs and the chinese envoy to the u.s. has warned of the damage inaccurate information can cause the 2900. responses being accompanied by a massive info demick an overabundance of information some accurate and some not that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it so very harmful it's very dangerous to stir up suspicion rumors

and spread them among the people for one thing and this will create panic friend. racial discrimination as you know phobia well despite the warnings at least u.s. officials can in their own way look on the bright side of the situation and take the positives from the global panic the fact is the does give businesses there yet another thing to consider when they go through their review of their supply chain so i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to north america this is a wake up call for an issue that has been latent for many years but it's critical to u.s. economic and national security we cannot necessarily depend another country so even close elyse to supply us with needed items from facemasks to vaccines some would say u.s. officials are doing a good job of undermining their own institutions without russia's help russia serves a very important purpose. and american politics these days rather than nat'l lies

in its own problems and trying to figure out how the you know how they arose and how to fix them americans find it much easier to blame someone else and that target is usually russia the us just the us intelligence agencies feel that they they can only benefit if they attack russian accused russia of various malign activities but i believe i don't believe russia has any any desire or any interest in spreading this information about the coronavirus because. if you spread this information that causes that that allows the the disease to spread all the more rapidly and russia is vulnerable as well so why would russia want to burn down its own house. next israel has shelled guards are in the syrian capital in response to asteroids

carried out by a palestine based militant group on sunday night this video reportedly shows the moment number of strikes at that time. even for wounded israel's military claims it hit off from the islamic jihad group in the region whatever in damascus weapons facilities and training sites were hit by missiles another flare up in the region came after the israeli defense forces shot dead a man from the same jihadi group on sunday the i.d.f. angered locals then by removing his body with an armored bulldozer from the border fence and just a warning you might find the following video upsetting. who. according to local media reports 2 other palestinians were wounded by israeli life fire as they attempted to recover the body the i.d.f.

said the victim along with another alleged terrorists had been planting an explosive device conflicting accounts say the man was unarmed however the israeli defense minister praised his soldiers handling of the situation. i back the i.d.f. which killed the terrorist in collected the body this is how it should be done and this is how it will be done. and israel often retrieve the bodies of suspected palestinian militants but it's a policy slammed by various groups we heard from one human rights advocate about it . it's yet another prof of how israel in general treat specialists in years including 3 think that they'd bodies what we have seen on t.v. suggests that they can see that us like animals israel is not free to use whatever force they have even in the case of military operation but rather according to international law they are hope to live to. a level of force that is the proportionate to the hardship treatment the cruel the treatment how do you.

grab the body and they hold the sure that we in general how they treat us that yes this is any human illegal and immoral. what's being described as an historic trial will begin in london later this monday's wiki leaks founder julian assange starts his hearing on extradition to the united states it'll run for a week and then resume later in may the 1st part will decide whether it's on facing extradition or not if it's ruled that the case is a politically motivated the whistleblower could be released meanwhile saunters father claims in some of her wrist on the eve of the hearing. julian arrested today . goes to court tomorrow and they searched him. so often just. to see you know for the on our conference to work through she's. having you should know crime or the family that you can come and live with. saunters

supporters well i was in the hundreds over the weekend in london protest against his planned expedition people carried packages demanding a song to be set free those in attendance ranged from god from british rock about to waters to fashion design a dame vivienne westwood and also the former greek finance minister yanis varoufakis. hero or enemy number one you decide either way during the song has become a name and a face recognised all over the wild but not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. bitch. terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant was her 6 was wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service by defeating the surely i'm not sure we define a dome or sacred rights the 48 year old australian put

a target on his back when he leaked a truth of classified u.s. documents langue bad views of power at the very highest levels with the u.s. justice department hot on his heels as some sort of saddam in london's ecuadorian embassy the 7 long years before suddenly and unceremoniously being dragged out by british police. or iran or a stab in the back and perhaps coincidence that aquittal is bank account had just been credited with a 4200000000 dollar loan from the i.m.f. where the u.s. has huge sway so from the 4 walls of the embassy to the 4 walls of a jail cell as someone who was taken to london's belmarsh prison and handed an exceptional sentence in britain by a violations seldom need to prison sentences they generally said. only to find

a son by contrast was sentenced in summary proceedings to 50 weeks in a marksman security prison clearly a disproportionate penalty that had only a single purpose holding asuncion long enough for the us to prepare the espionage case against him his lawyer had just 15 minutes to prepare for the trial which itself also just lost it 15 minutes betrayed by ecuador feeling let down by the legal system a songe now claimed his fundamental human rights were under attack he was put in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day the u.n. and rights groups were in disbelief and some feared for more than just his freedom we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr a staunch could die in prison the medical situation is there or by urgent there is no time to lose against this backdrop is it surprising that suspicion swallowing

around the extradition trial especially given the u.s. u.k. treaty clearly states no 6 that can be extradited the political purposes which many tame at the says and while washington says this case is strictly about national security it seems queen elizabeth the 2nd didn't get the memo. i must tell you however that is a constitutional sovereign majesty acts on the advice of him ministers and remain strictly nonpolitical at all times this is therefore not a message in which the queen would intervene if the u.k. kowtows to its allies request a sound might be dealt not just a life sentence without parole but even the death penalty if washington to side step out on father charges in the future but if it finds a willing jury which apparently won't be a problem. they certainly will receive a trial by jury in alexandria virginia the new tories espionage court with the u.s. tries all national security cases the choice of location is not by coincidence the

cases are always tried in front of the same judge behind closed doors and on the strength of classified evidence nobody has ever been acquitted in a case like that that is a prearranged for a show trial to make an example of julian assange the point is to intimidate other journalists global outcry human rights law the right to a fat trial turns out there all week adversaries in the face of the government who will fight tooth and nail to keep a lid on its dirty secrets. former head of the controversial political movement the english defense league is in russia on a lecture tour called the great britain stephen you actually learn who goes by the name of tommy robinson 1st came to prominence by organizing anti islam demonstrations he was in the spotlight again last year after being jailed for contempt of court for live streaming a sexual abuse trial outside the court he's since been banned from almost all mainstream social media sites robinson's been speaking to artichokes on

a boycott on worlds apart and you can watch the lively exchange about his campaign to stop muslim grooming gangs in the u.k. on our website at r.t. dot com. speaking about the topic of your talk correct me if i'm wrong it's titled the rape of britain i know that you are prone to generalisations but isn't that hugh broadbent who threatening of a statement more right in discussion would talk about islam not muslims in general not like how can you talk about islam and not talk about muslims in general or to islam as an idea it's a book it's an idea to criticize i did practice by muslims but if i criticize christianity i'm not insulting or picking for every christian i'm picking for the ideas so when we see the rape levels that we've seen in our country and from a population muslim. i would make up 2.2 percent of the british population they are responsible for 84 percent of the convictions of these talks this type of right you know i'm another muslim myself but i am married to a muslim and i know for

a fact that islam imposes very strict limits on x. your marital sex not to mention rape so if the victim say's racial religious the perpetrator says racial religious religion religious the qur'an and the scriptural support and justifies the charges against just simply not true it is true the $950.00 s. the british forces used rape and kissed ration to put down uprising seen kenya they paid compensation to the victims a few years back what did caste if i mean to throw around that kind of labels to anyone who is connected to the british state no it wouldn't go on not for in those accusations that anyone connected to is you're referring to them as muslim they were muslim but that i don't know how is it different from the british rape is that because these men are muslims and the rapists and they rape in young children and there those men were also british and there were very few then because i know everybody i have no problem with you label in those people who commit what about arms as british rapists or you or you don't have to know you know what i mean they really are talking about generalisations here got about 10 rows of talk about islam

people have to understand islam is no idea mohammed is its founder and we have a right to criticize and look at his life because when you look at his life and you see the pillaged he murdered he raped his and his wife is not a violent scene in most holy books mr i believe most of the most of it i'm known fees by the way but most religious people do not take their scriptures literally these days. and dystonia woman has fled to russia and claimed asylum after discovering what she alleges is the sexual abuse of her 2 daughters by her norwegian husband it's a story. to belittle my older daughter started scratching her face and i would ask her why do you scratching yourself you should hurt yourself and she would reply well mom. i feel guilty about what dad did to us then we went to psychologist after several sessions she told me the girls are telling the truth about what they want to it's a classic reaction in service and has taken her 2 daughters to russia to keep them

away from their norwegian father she accuses him of molesting the girls it started back in 2012 in norway when the girls were aged one and 2 but the us was when our younger daughter was born he offered to be their older daughter i need something from the bathroom so iraq turn without knocking i opened the door they were not washing they were not even in the bath they were just standing there naked and i went on to describe the horrific details of that incident after finding out the girls were being abused who is from a story obtained a story in passports for the girls and took them to her homeland but the husband hired a lawyer filed for custody and won the right to see the children for a week every 2 months and it was legally unable to prevent him from taking the children to norway. after the 1st trips the children would come back and tell me would be naked with dad or where we slept naked with dad in the same bed sometimes the older one would wake up screaming at us for

a long time i could in the to myself what was happening and make 2016 he once again brought the children back from a weeklong stay there i saw a very strange scene when we were saying good bye i asked my daughter whether they played like that when they are in norway and my youngest one said yes. after that on a went to the store and police and the criminal case was opened a gynecologist examined the girls and found evidence of abuse the father was then arrested and charged on a visit to the psychologist who gave some advice on how to get the truth from her own daughter although that was a soviet of all the psychologist said i needed to talk to her in the home environment and when she started talking it was a nightmare she told me that her dad tickled there that it was painful but later at the trial they cues me of teaching my children what to tell the investigators and social workers despite the girl's testimony these star new. there was insufficient evidence to convict your steam fencer us and so he was acquitted he then sued his wife and in 2018 managed to win custody of the children mr finster us and denies

the allegations against him my father was accused of doing something to a 1314 year old sister of using it as leverage that my father was like that then i have to be like that i'm a lost a legal appeal and turn to human rights groups for help but she was unable to overturn the ruling in january this year your son fencer or some was due to take the girls to norway so ana decides to flee to russia taking the girls with her they're now being looked after a while and his asylum claim is being processed. for france as witness the 67th weekend of anti-government yellow vest rallies clashes with police mother protests in the northern city of lille. riot police used tear gas to disperse activists who fought back with rocks and smoke bombs around 1000 were involved in the armrest since october 28th in the yellow best movement has held weekly demonstrations over what they say are for the

living standards here's a look at some of what happened in leo on sunday on saturday. now all that was going on that president mccrone was in paris attending the opening of an international agricultural show where he was meeting with industry representatives a number of yellow vest activists turned up at the event and began heckling the french leader accusing him of being a dictator. was. was. one of the social movements most prominent figures was among the protesters he tried to approach emmanuel mccrum before being forcibly removed by security and subsequently taken into police custody. i wanted to express my dissatisfaction to

emanuel macron we've been trying to talk to him for months but it's difficult he only talks to people who are happy with him not the other way round and here we are people who are unhappy with these 5 years and we are not even able to approach him our president promised to meet with representatives of the yellow vests after many months of refusing to do so r.t. france spoke to one of the group's coordinators about the incident. well this is yet another manifestation of the authoritarianism of this government i mean eric dreher like any normal citizen had bought a ticket and gone to the international agricultural show it's fine that their mood and went around the crowd i would even say this was a rather mild reaction given what we have been facing for the last 15 months we've been persecuted in a way that no other previous social movement has been the yellow vests are the 1st to become an object of such persecution this obviously bothers people and they want

to show that he's not right and then eric dreher was detained and taking out of the whole list was part of the democratic debate in our country but with mccrone it's all come to an end. and britain bids farewell to the european union here will now return to its iconic blue passports after 30 or so years although many are pointing out the irony of where the post directed passports are being made. by returning to their current blue and gold design the british passport will once again be twined with our national identity.

the irony these blue passports are made in poland. the gift that keeps on giving. passports that's made in a factory in pool and by franco dutch company oh the irony the fact that this is being lauded as a big win sums up threads that the color changes but the opportunity and potential has been restricted in this case and the represent economic harm and limited horizons. ok that's the way i look so far this monday the 24th of fabric thanks for watching you next global update from altie in moscow is in just over 35 minutes from now see that.

the point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge for things is because it's a benefit to the person. and that's the audiology to education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for saudi in general i wouldn't want to live in

a saudi without doctors or engineers all saw what happened without economists. saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill bias we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that skill on the individuals and what we've turned it into is just now the trying institution of higher education become a form a version of a real estate scam that is not the bisons for a functional saudi. become a battleground in the us. people of demanding the shut down of a local plant from yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where is it going is it

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle russia gate lives in the sequel has just been released starring of course donald trump but also now bernie sanders indeed russia gate has achieved cult like status also turkey on the ropes in syria. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dmitri baba he's a political analyst and editor it interests me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics 1st magazine all right

gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london 1st marcus we have all of this going on in the united states with the presidential election and mike bloomberg and bernie sanders and russia gate but meanwhile in syria a lot is happening it's very very dangerous it could internationalize the war again so what my question is to you and it centers on what in the world is turkey trying to pull off there it is breaking its all of its agreements and it's making the situation worse when the when the war is finally coming to an end markets in london . let me set the scene by say that turkey and russia are traditional foes and if anyone is in doubt of this i would refer them to how turkey aided easily missed separatist militants not just in chechnya but also in pakistan and in the shanty earth during the $99.00 seas or so despite the hanshin.