it was 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 within the hour we're across it throughout the day. as coronavirus cases spike outside china moscow denies accusations of edition from ation campaign that's allegedly undermining the global response to the pandemic. israel exchanges fire with a militant group in the syrian capital and in gaza after the i.d.f. shot dead one of its members of a border fence removed with a bulldozer. monday

the 24th of february i'm going to bring it all to h.q. welcome to your world news this hour a 1st for you in what's being described as an historic airing wiki leaks founder julian assange will face the opening proceedings on his potential extradition to the united states this week will see the opening arguments made before a 2nd session in may where both sides will lay out their evidence it could then be months before the judge makes a decision if the case is politically motivated songs could be released his father meanwhile claims that his son faced intimidation on the eve of the earring. julian arrest me today. goes to court tomorrow they searched you still so often just before we see you know for the going. to work you are so she's just. having it with no crime or the family you that you can go and leave with.

the hundreds of supporters turned out in central london at the weekend including veteran british walk up water water's fashion design a dame vivienne westwood and former greek finance minister yanis varoufakis correspondents of good title next looks at how assange has found himself closer than ever to extradition. 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 enough of the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. bitch song engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant. her 6. leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service by defeat and even surely in a showdown we define you down most sacred rights the 48 year old australian put

a target on his back when he leaked 8 of classified u.s. documents lang bad views of powell 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 fire or a stab in the back and perhaps coincidence that aquittal as bank account had just been credited with a 4200000000 dollar loan. from the i.m.f. the u.s. has huge sway so from the 4 walls of the embassy to the 4 walls of a jail cell a songe was taken to london's belmarsh prison and handed an exceptional sentence in britain by a violation seldom need to prison sentences they generally subject only to fines.

by contrast was sentenced in summary proceedings to 50 weeks in a marksman security prison clearly a disproportionate penalty that only a single purpose holding his son should be long enough for the us to prepare the espionage case against him he and 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 un 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 those suspicions swaddling

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 there's a constitutional sovereign majesty acts on the advice of him ministers and remain strictly nonpolitical at all times this is therefore not a message you wish 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 father charges in the future but if it finds a willing jury which apparently won't be a problem. you 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 is a prearranged of a show trial to make an example of julian assange and 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 a government who will fight tooth and nail to keep a lid on its secrets. well the un special rapporteur on torture who just quoted there tells today's going underground on r.t. that the asylum case is a battle between freedoms and more. during the sun is not a whistleblower he did not leak information it was a legal problems he was leaked to him so u.k. authorities here they basically deciding on whether a show trial should go. absolutely nuts i think this is not what it's about whether

this 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 your innocence this is really is a particle over press freedom over rule of law of the future i would say even a democracy. and the number of coronavirus patients located far from the deadly epicenter in china has suddenly spiked its input 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 officials there raising the number to 12 earlier this monday and the authorities in italy cancel the carnival in venice major sporting events are being proposed as well as entire towns and communities are put on lockdown in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday with another $161.00 people confirmed taking the total there are almost $800.00 the governments also temporarily shut down religious movements and the cults whose members make up

a sizeable number number of the known infections meanwhile the united states 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 distracts you from the global health response the u.s. state department claims thousands of fake social media accounts are advancing so-called russian talking points the messages apparently label it an american biological weapon being used to wage an 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 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. of the. 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 cause doubt on official information coming out of china though 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 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 29010 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 this or a 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 it's critical to u.s. economic and national security we cannot necessarily depend another country's 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 izing 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. israel shelled the gaza and the syrian capital in response to as trikes carried out by palestine based militant group on sunday night this video reportedly shows the moment a number of strikes hit the targets in gaza. leaving for wounded israel's military claims of operatives from the islamic jihad group in the region all over in damascus weapons facilities and training sites were hit by missiles. and in another flare up in the region that came after the israeli defense forces shot dead a man from the same job the group on sunday the i.d.f. then angered locals by removing the body with an armored bulldozer from the border fence be aware that the you might find the following video of the incident upsetting. not come across a. young man here on my ass i'm sure your. mind.

according to local media reports 2 other palestinians were wounded by israeli life fires 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 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 israel often retrieves 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 proof of how israel in general treats specialists in years including 3 think their bodies what we have seen on t.v. said just 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 throw that

according to international law the laws to to use the level of force that is the proportionate to the hardship due to the cruel treatment how do you. by the way how would be sure that we generally held its feet but as to yes this is in the human illegal and more on the. former head of the anti islam english defense league is in russia an elected talk all the rape of britain stephen you actually learn 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 after harvesting defendants outside a sex abuse trial it was a case where the police withheld the race of the accused over fears of inflaming racial tension robinson's been part of a push to expose multiple child rape gangs largely run by pakistani men in towns across england and the since been banned from almost all mainstream social media sites he was challenged by x. on a boycott on the latest edition of artie's worlds apart. 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 broad and hugh threatening of a statement the more right in discussion we talk about islam not muslims in general not if i 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 that it is practiced by muslims but if i criticize christianity i'm not and so in 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 the victims say is racial religious the

perpetrator says racial religious religion religious the qur'an and the scripture supports and justifies the charges against simply not true or is true the $950.00 s. the british forces used rape and constrained. to put down uprising scene kenya they paid compensation to the victims a few years back what did cast if i may to throw around that kind of labels to anyone who is connected to the british state no it wouldn't go on not from in those accusations or anyone can i but these you're referring to them as muslim rape. but that i don't know how is it different from the british rape is that because these men are muslims and i write this and they write in young children and those men who are 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 as british rapists or you are you don't have to tell me that i mean they really are talking about generalisations here about not generous i'm talking about islam people have to understand islam is not the mohammad it's found 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 is not

a violent scene not in most holy books mr i don't even know most of them most of it i do none fees by the way but most religious people do not take their scriptures that literally these days. this is a tape from moscow ahead to study a mother who says she's been forced to flee to russia accusing the authorities of failing to take sex abuse claims against her daughters seriously the stories next after this.

proven this point because even though all the supply lines are choked and deliveries of critical parts are not happening stocks are still stable or going higher because it's. cheap money right it's all cheap money that cheap money is is created out of nothing to create the simulation going.

home and says she's had to flee to russia to protect her daughter she's claiming asylum after her husband was acquitted of sexually abusing the children is historic . that's sort of it's a bit of my older daughter started scratching her face i would ask her how do you scratching yourself you shouldn't hurt yourself and she would reply oh 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 something he strongly denies according to her 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 turned 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 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 there were by years 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 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 she says a gynecologist examined the girls and found evidence suggested will 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 survey 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 their it that it was painful but later at the trial they accused me of teaching my children what to tell the investigators and social workers despite the girl's testimony the court said there was insufficient evidence to convict your stain fencer us an idea 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 accused of doing something to a 1314 year old sister. that's leverage that my father was like that and i have to be like that i'm a launched a legal appeal and turned to human rights groups for help but she was unable to overturn the ruling in january this year your son finster us and was due to take the girls to norway so ana decides to flee to russia taking the girls with their

now being looked after a while and his asylum claim is being processed. donald trump has accused the democratic party of trying to ruin the chances of one of their own ahead of the election the us 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 could be is the democrats. are greedy very very rarely and it sounds to me like the least likely the matter because they don't want bernie represent sounds like it's. over again the party. i'll shift and i'll use he's the anonymous intelligence source and accuses donald trump of spreading false claims to bernie sanders he's declared war on both the republicans and the democrats the thumb on senator described his campaign as unstoppable and so far he looks on course to take the party nomination and the veteran politician success as not only got the political establishment worried but apparently the media as well. i think it's

a little late to stop them and i think that's the problem the game of it is pretty much over already last night about the fall of france in the summer of 1940 and then general reno calls up churchill and says its over. so under security at 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 sanders surged to the top is putting 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 stem accredits are the weakest field i've seen in my lifetime. was 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 their revert to blue and one of the most symbolic separation statements many though are pointing out the irony of where the post passports are being made. by returning to the conic blue and gold 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 the factory. company the irony the fact that this is being lauded as a big threat is it the color changes but the opportunity and potential has been restricted in this case the represent economic harm and. limited horizons. ok that is your news for now next we're in northern ireland where residents recall a particularly chilling chapter during the troubles of living in deadly fear of the british open. seem wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out. come out of it and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to write to the press as a white woman for 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. i sit. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were

forced to flee their homes and what was striking to point these attacks was that the or you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing them they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the time more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors i mean found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the cranes which the killers and was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named. i think it went to the very very top i think it is for all the water where all the taste since you thought was going on and gave the go ahead . of. the man that margaret found it impossible to touch

the man she witnessed shooting her husband at point blank range was robin jackson. jackson was supported on loyalist who became one of the conflicts most prolific killers. he was. also an r.u.c. agent nicknamed the jackal. 5 days before pat campbell's murder a man and whose home police had found 64 kilograms of explosives 2 grenades and over 5000 rounds of a sort of ammunition had named jackson as his accomplice. however police failed to arrest jackson meanwhile he is of liberty to murder part campbell. jackson of being a member of the ulster defense regiment then the largest regiment in the british army. he was later involved in the massacre of the miami showband in july 975 when 3 band members were killed by members of the clan and gang as they

attempted to plant a bomb on the musician's boss. loyalist paramilitaries harris boyle and wesley somerville were killed instantly as the bomb exploded prematurely. well the ulster defense regiment was the largest regiment in the british army it was geographically recruited here and the north of ireland and it only served here in the north of ireland it was essentially a counterinsurgency unit that was set up the big end of the troubles. that itself took over from the discredit the specials which was a special place chill it thought it existed since the 1920 s. . and it was clear from the outset that the u.d.r. was set up to recruit from within the loyalist on the unionist community. they were almost entirely drawn from within not commanding.

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