a coronavirus cases spike outside china moscow denies accusations of a dissin from a campaign that's allegedly undermining the global response to the epidemic. israel exchanged fire with a militant group in the syrian capital and in gaza after the i.d.f. shot dead one of its members of the border fence removed his body with a bulldozer. and what's being described as a far reaching and historic trial for journalists wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to begin his extradition hearing in london this monday where across it throughout the day.

this is r.t. international i'm calling welcome to news this hour 1st for you the number of coronavirus patients located far from the deadly epicenter in china has suddenly spiked italy put emergency measures in place over the weekend with 150 reported cases and 3 deaths it's europe's 1st major outbreak while iran has the highest number of deaths outside china with 8 reportedly dead now your thoughts initially cancel the carnival in venice major sporting events were postponed as well as entire towns and communities were put on lockdown in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday with $161.00 people confirmed taking the total there to almost $800.00 the government's also temporarily shut down religious movements and the cult whose members make up more than half of the known infections meanwhile the u.s. is accusing russia of spreading alarm and coronavirus conspiracy theories. 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 label 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 now 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 this miss 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. but 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 the 3rd market is china's only biosafety level 4 super laboratory research of human infectious diseases and why it's this way about this virus to me 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 show has called for all sides that take extra care with trading barbs and the chinese envoy to the u.s. has warned of the damage inaccurate information can cause. the 29000 and. response has been 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 service or crowd panic or fandoms. 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 is 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 natalie lies

in its own problems and trying to figure out how they can 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 corona virus 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 israel has shelled guards or in the syrian capital in response to s trikes carried out by a palestine based militant group on sunday night now this video reportedly shows the moment a number of strikes hit their targets in gaza leaving 4 wounded is. military claims

it hit operatives from the islamic jihad group in the region while over 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. there are good locals by removing the body with an armored bulldozer from the border fence be aware that you might find the following video of the incident upsetting 7. according to local media reports 2 other palestinians will be hunted by israeli life fire as they attempted to recover the body the i.d.f. said the man along with another alleged terrorist 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 backed 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 israel often retrieve the bodies of suspected palestinian militants but it's a policy slammed by various groups we heard from a human rights advocate. it's yet another prof of how israel in general treat specialists in years including 3 think the didn't by these what we have seen on t.v. suggests that they could 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 open to to use the level of force that is the proportionate to the outback harshit to do it in and put all the treatment how do you. bulldoze those. grab the body and they hold the sure that we in general how they treat but as to yes this is any human illegal and

immoral. in what's being described as an historic hearing wiki leaks founder julian assange will begin his hearing on his extradition to the united states it's going to run for one week in a london court on monday and then regime later in may the 1st public decide whether assad faces extradition or not if it's rather the case is politically motivated the whistleblower could be released meanwhile assad his father claims his son faced intimidation on the eve of the hearing. julian harassment today. goes to court tomorrow and searched. so often just. to see you know for the on our conference to work. she's. having with no crime or the family that you can come and live with. some supporters were out in the hundreds of the weekend in london protesting against his extradition people carry placards demanding a song to be set free those in attendance ranged from veteran british rocker roger

waters to fashion designer vivienne westwood and also former greek finance minister yanis varoufakis hit his correspondence ask you tell a bit more. care 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 penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. bitch song is engaged in 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 but i do find even 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 uses 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. are. a stab in the back and perhaps coincidence that aquittal as bank account had just been credited with a 4200000000 dollar learn from the i.m.f. where the u.s. has huge sway so from the full rules 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 are generally subject only to. mines. 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 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 at 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 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 citizen 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 her 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 as might be doubt not just a life sentence without parole but even the death penalty if washington to side step out on the charges in the future if it finds a willing jury which apparently will be a problem. his sons will receive a trial by jury in alexandria virginia the natori is espionage court where 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 of

a show trial to make an example of julian a son should the point is to intimidate other journalists global outcry human rights the 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 it dirty secrets now the un special rapporteur on torture who's quoted also tells today's going underground r.t. that the assad case is a battle between freedoms and law. doing the same is not a whistleblower. he did not leak information it was illegal he was leaked to him so u.k. authorities here are they basically deciding on whether a show trial should go. absolutely yes i think this is not what it's about whether this show trial should go ahead because there's not going to be nothing else than a show trial and there's no chance is going to get a fair trial it's not just about 2 innocent this is really is

a bottle over press freedom over the rule of law of the future i would say even a democracy. and the former head of the anti islam english defense league in russia on a lecture tour called the rape of britain stephen he actually lennon who goes by the name of tommy robinson 1st came to prominence for organizing controversial demonstrations last year he was jailed for contempt of court for harrison defendants outside a sexual abuse trial robinson's been at the forefront of exposing multiple child rape gangs largely run by pakistani men in town to cross england as the police or to cover up the rapists identities for fears they will become targets for racism robinson has since been banned from almost all mainstream social media sites he had a lively exchange with artichokes on a boycott which you can watch online 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 so you broadbent who threatening of

a statement you might write in discussion or talk about islam but muslims in general not if i like how can you talk about islam and not talk about muslims in general islam is an idea it's a book it's an idea to criticize that it is practiced by muslims but if i criticize christianity your mind so in or picking from every christian i'm picking fall at the idea so when we see the rape levels that we've seen in our country and from a population muslim males make up 2.2 percent of the british population they are responsible for 84 percent of the convictions of these talks this type of rate you know i'm in. not a muslim myself but i am married to a muslim and i know for a fact that islam imposes very strict limits on extramarital sex not to mention rape victims say it's racial religious the perpetrator says racial religious religious religious the qur'an and the scriptural support and justifies the charges against them is simply not true it is true the $950.00 s. the british forces used rape and castration to put down uprising seen kenya they

paid compensation to the victims a few years back what did cast 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. americans but that i don't know how is it different from the british rapist because these men are muslims and the rapists and the you can young children and the those men were also british and there were very few of them because they are not very good i have no problem with you label in those people who commit what about as british rapists or you are you know you know what i mean they really are talking about generalisations here about a not generous i'm talking about islam people have to understand islam is not the mohammed 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 did he write his name his wife's daughter your violin seen in most holy books mr i believe most of the most of you i'm none fees by the way but most religious people do not take their scriptures literally these days.

this is i'll tell you from moscow ahead the a stony and mother who says she's been forced to flee to russia accusing the authorities of failing to take sex abuse claims against her daughter seriously as stories next after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development that only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. what politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted

or rejected. so when you want to express an interest. or something want to be that's. actually going to be close it's like the flag 3 of the people. interested always in the why is it. there should. be. no again the study of woman says she's had to flee to russia to protect her daughter as she's claiming asylum after her husband was acquitted of sexually abusing the children is a story. outside of its ability my older daughter started scratching her face 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 on a fin surface and has taken her 2 daughters to russia to keep. them away from the 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. 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 the way 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 nya 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 he had a way of 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 couldn't it to myself what was happening and i'm a 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 bit 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 the istari new court said there was insufficient evidence to convict you or steyn fencer us and so he was acquitted he then sued his wife and in 28000 managed to win custody of the children mr finster us and denies all the allegations against him my father was ok. still do something to a 1314 year old started using it as leverage that my father was like that then i have to be like that i'm a loser to legal appeal and turn to human rights groups for help but she was unable to overturn the ruling in january this year you austin fencer austin was due to take the girls to norway so ana decides to flee to russia taking the girls with them now being looked after while and it's asylum claim is being processed. trump's accuse the democratic party of trying to ruin the chances of one of their own the head of the 2020 election u.s. president says congressman adam schiff has been leaking information to the media

suggesting that bernie sanders is being backed by russian meddling. i think what it is. very very very early and it sounds to me like i think. there was very. sound like. over again very. well shift denies he's the anonymous intelligence source and accuses donald trump of spreading false claims as for bernie sanders he's declared war on both republicans and democrats because of all this the vermont senator described his campaign as unstoppable and so far he looks on course to take the party nomination and the veteran politician successor nominee got the political establishment worried apparently the media is too i think it's a little late to start for that i think that's the problem the game of it is pretty much over really where a story about the fall of france in the summer of 1940 and then general reno cause of churchill and says it's overt signs of security yet another emphatic victory in

the state of nevada the vote count from sunday put him a long way out in front of his 3 biggest rivals political analyst charles alltel says it puts the democrats in a difficult position. the democratic establishment understands that a democratic socialist is never going to be president and states in the next by say 50 years he's in a unique position actually to alienate the democratic moderates and inflame trump supporters to come out and force even more so into 2020 than they did in 2016 no way dispute but people to judge is not qualified to be had a president of the boy scouts of america now bankrupt let alone a senator or president eyes states and elizabeth warren is an appalling fake need i go on i mean there are stomach rats are the weakest field i've seen in my lifetime . britain bids farewell to the european union one thing that i can't wait to see is their passports changing color after decades of burgundy they'll revert to

blue one of the most symbolic separation statements many though pointing out to the irony of where these posts passports are being made. by returning to the conic blue and gold design the british passport to 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 the factory. dutch company oh the irony of the fact that

this is being lauded as a big thumbs up brags that the color changes but the opportunity and potential has been restricted in this case blue will represent economic harm and. emitted horizons. ok that's the way it looks so far this monday the 24th of february of next i will update from all to you in moscow as in just over half an hour from now c.n.n. . the chrono virus dow has proven this point because even though all the while own

supply lines are choked and deliveries of critical parts are not happening stocks are still stable or going higher because it's fed by cheap money right it's all cheap money that cheap money is is created out of nothing to create the simulation going. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask.

the imagine or times you were going underground as a landmark freed. of speech case in a london court could decide whether nato nation journalists and their editors have to be arrested all around the world coming up on the show the united nations special rapporteur on torture and arbitrary detention kneels meltzer tells us about dirty tricks by british authorities against the world's most famous publisher julian assange revealed u.s. u.k. war crimes to the world as the persecuted wiki leaks founder fights extradition to a secret court in donald trump's usa and amongst the billions on earth helped by revelations of wiki leaks against the powerful what about what it told us of the international cortex trade we talked pills powder and smoke and the imperial control of boards and coercive political control at home or refracted by a brutal war on drugs illusion killing more maybe millions all the civil coming up

in today's going underground at 1st the world's most famous publisher and arguably the entire freedom of the press to reveal war crimes is on trial today the london court just 12 miles from the studio after years of alleged u.k. torture in december mation even so-called mainstream news outlets that have attacked this channel and been responsible for an arguable attack on truth since 911 and before getting worried about this week's alleged u.k. persecution of julian assange the of wiki leaks well if you watch a lot of the coverage of this story today on television you likely came away with the understanding that julian a songe is some kind of russian spy who's in trouble tonight because he stole classified documents from the u.s. government that is not true it's factually incorrect saying so it's not a defense of assad right here to promote him or excuse any number of things he said over the years that we disagree with quite a lot but just so it's clear whatever his sins assad did not steal documents from

the united states government he did not hack the d.n.c. servers he didn't break into john podesta g.-mail account there is no proof that he is working for the russian government or ever has worked for the russian government numbers. and charged with any of that and wasn't today no matter what they tell you grudging defenses of assad by outlets like rupert murdoch's fox news the statement they did b.b.c. and form a wiki leaks partners the guardian new york times among others perhaps emerging because they realize they could all soon find themselves in court for merely reporting on the crimes of nato countries when i'm joined now by the united nations kneels meltzer who wants answers from boris johnson's government about britain's role in what defenders of assad say are attempts to eliminate him in london's belmarsh prison special operator welcome back to going underground before we get to issues around the court case that will it's crown court to build large crown court .