each day. storage. is here. waiting to be reached. superior moscow right now in the headlines eve what's been described as a far reaching and historic trial for journalism wiki leaks founder julian assange begins his u.s. extradition hearing in london we're going to be across it throughout the day. as corona virus cases spike outside china moscow deny these accusations of this information campaign that's allegedly undermining the global response to the epidemic. and also this month 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 the border fence and removed his body with a bulldozer.

after this is out international life my worldviews h.q. in moscow is kevin owen here with you to take you through our top stories this morning the next half hour or so thanks for your company then so 1st it was being described as a storage hearing wiki leaks founder julian assange is currently facing the opening proceedings of his potential extradition to the united states this week we'll see the arguments presented 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 ruled as politically motivated the sons could be for the released freed his father meantime as claimed the case could have overarching consequences for journalism in general now. the torture of julian as witnessed by no mills of you know nations read to her on. all of those reports are

viable that is what will happen to journalists publishers and public. if this extradition this political expedition julian the sons of his successor. hundreds of supporters have been gathering in protest against the sons of detention and extradition revellers of being held near the court in london where the horrors of the world and also in a stroller in sydney of course promised us could looks next and how our son his father self closer than ever to extradition. hero or enemy number one you decide either way judy in the song has become a name and a face recognized all over the walls and 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. terrorist he should be treated as an enemy combatant.

her 6. walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service by defeating the jury in the sun we just feed our most sacred rights the 48 year old australian put a target on his back when he leaked 8 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 but full suddenly and unceremoniously being dragged out by british police. were there were a stab in the back and pop. coincidence that aquittal is bank account had just been credited with a $4200000000.00 learn 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 as someone who was taken to london's belmarsh prison and handed an exceptional sentence in britain by a violation seldom need to prison sentences they're generally subject only to finds . 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 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 assad 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 is a constitutional sovereign majesty acts on the advice of him ministers and remain strictly nonpolitical at all times this is therefore not a mess that 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 thought the charges in the future that 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 that is a prearranged 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 the un special rapporteur on torture who we just quoted today is going underground show on the various times that on this channel that the

assad case is a battle for freedom is no. drew the son is not a whistleblower he did not leak information it was illegal publish he was leaked to him so u.k. authorities here are they basically deciding on whether a show trial should go ahead absolutely yes i think this is not what it's about whether the soul trial should go ahead because there's not going to be nothing else than a show trial and us there's no chance it's going to get a fair trial it's not just about your innocence it does really is a battle over press freedom over the rule of law of the future i would say even of democracy. track in the coronavirus know the number of patients located far from the deadly epicenter in china are suddenly spiked who can report italy put emergency measures in place over the weekend with 150 reported cases and 4 deaths it's europe's 1st major outbreak while iran has the highest number of deaths outside china now local reports say there are more than 50 dead in

just one region there despite officials in to run confirming only 12 nationwide we're back to italy authorities there canceled a carnival in venice major sporting events perspire to his entire towns and communities been put on lockdown in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday with another 100 $61.00 people confirmed ill taking the total there to almost $800.00 the government's also temporarily shut down religious movements and the cult whose members make up a sizeable number of the known infections indeed meantime sides all this 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 where the us 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 economic war on china accounts linked back to russian proxies are also being accused of undermining the global response to with more on this side of it all coming out now 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 the smiths 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 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 food market is china's only biosafety level 4 super laboratory research of human infectious diseases 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 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 forwarded this to a crowd panicked fan of racial discrimination as you know phobia well despite the warnings at least the 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 that 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 on other countries 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 analyzing 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 disinformation 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 its own house. committees today israel is shelled gaza and the syrian capital in response to airstrikes current palestine based militant group on sunday night check this video reportedly shows the moment a number of strikes hit the targets in gaza leaving for who is those military claims it hits operatives from the islamic jihad group in the region met while over in damascus weapons facilities and training sites were also hit by missiles. and

the fear for the region came after the israeli defense forces shot dead a man from the same jihadi group on sunday the i.d.f. then angered locals by removing the body with an armored bulldozer from the border fence the way you may find some of the following video coming up upsetting. some of the. lies that. young here are. not. according to look we do ports to other palestinians were wounded by israeli life fire as they attempted to cover the body of 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 the id rather the israeli defense minister praised the soldiers handling of the situation. aipac the

i.d.f. which killed the terrorist and collected the body this is how it should be done and this is how it will be done when israel often retrieves the bodies of suspected palestinian militants but it's a policy slammed by various groups we heard the thoughts from a human rights advocate. it's yet another prof of how israel in general treats palestinians including 3 things that did 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. taught to use the level of force that is the proportionate to the act harshit to determine the crawler treatment how the. bulldogs. grab the body and they hold the shore that we in general how they treat us that yes this is any human illegal and immoral.

former head of the and here's defense league is here in russia on a lecture to called the rape of britain 7 you actually lenin who goes by the name of tommy robinson 1st came to prominence for organizing controversial demonstrations now last year he was jailed for contempt of court after harassing defend themselves are the child sex abuse trial it was a case where police with held the race of the accused over fears of inflaming racial tension robinson was part of a push to highlight multiple child grooming gangs largely run by pakistani men in towns across england and a since been banned from almost all mainstream social media sites he was challenged by are examined in the latest edition of 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 too broad and threatening

of a statement the more right in discussion we talk about islam not muslims in general . how can you talk about this 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 is practiced by muslims but if i criticize christianity i'm not and so in or taken for way every christian i'm picking for the ideas so when we see the rate 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 extramarital sex not to mention rape so if the victim says racial religious the perpetrator says racial religious religion religious the qur'an and the scripture supports and justifies the charges against simply not true is true the 950 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 from in those accusations or anyone connected to it 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 rapists and they reckon young children and their those men who are also british and there were very few then 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 or you don't have to know you know what i mean if we are talking about generalisations here i've got about 10 rows i'm talking about islam people have to get the understanding that 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 murdered he raped his he. violent scenes like that in most tell me books mr i don't even know 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.

him or that he will support but he is coming up off the bright we are all to international love. stoli a mother who says she's been forced to flee to russia or accusing the authorities of failing to take sex abuse claims against adults is seriously enough. the chrono virus now has proven this point because even though all supply loan 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. what politicians do.

put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go right to be cross which is what the before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water out. there should. they get a sort of poster they are sure moscow time thanks for watching richard and around the world knows that much before the break there are stowed in woman says she's had to flee here to russia to protect her daughters she's claiming asylum after her

husband was acquitted of sexually abusing the children. is a story. that falls out 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 oh mom i feel guilty about what dad did to us then we went to a 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 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 raised one and 2 but the us where 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 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 that for a long time i could in the to myself what was happening and me 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 i know went to the store and police and the criminal case. was opened she says the gynecologist examined the girls and found evidence suggested would be 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 older 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 the cues leave 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 started losing it that's the leverage that my father was like that 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 austin was due to take the girls to norway. so ana decides to flee to russia taking the girls with their now being looked after while and his asylum claim is being processed. still

trumps accuse democratic party of trying to ruin the chances of one of their own ahead of the 2020 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 is. very very very early. to be like. good morning. sounds like a good thing over again but. no shift strongly denies he's anonymous intelligence source accuses donald trump of spreading false claims as for bernie sanders he's declared war on both the republicans and the democrats the vermont senator describes his campaign knows unstoppable and so far he looks on course to take the party nomination and the veteran politician success is nearly got the political establishment worried but part of the media too. i think it's

a little late to stop all of that i think that's the problem the game of it is pretty much over reading last night about the fall of france in the summer of 1940 and then general reno course of churchill and says it's over so the secured yet another emphatic victory the state of nevada the vote count from sunday put in a long way out in front of his 3 biggest rivals but it shows alltel spoke to us about it says son there's an urge and surge to get to the top is put in the democrats a difficult position for 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 in force even more so in 2020 than they did in 2016 their stomach routes are the weakest field i've seen in my lifetime. put in bids

farewell to the european union one thing the pressure does can't wait to see is the passports changing color after decades of e.u. burgundy the revert back to blue one of the most symbolic separation statements maybe many of them were pointing out the are anywhere these are post bricks it passports are actually made. by returning to the conic 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 the factoring pool and by franco dutch company oh the irony the fact that this is being lauded as a big win sums up the threads that the color changes but the opportunity and potential has been restricted in this case it will represent economic harm and limited horizons. which i think i'll leave it for now i was so much more for us of course in a very social leader and i want to go on when i was kevin knowing that thanks for watching more from just over half an hour the next to tell of my programs you and your part of walter on air but after the break coming up. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own personal there is. no

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corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on r.t. . hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle russia gay lives on 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 marcus in london

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