because here. we need to be reached. 3 pm right now here in moscow this monday in the headlines this hour in what's been described as a far reaching a story trial for journalism wiki leaks founder julian assange begins his u.s. extradition hearing in london will be across it throughout the day. also makes the news today to israel plans to fundamentally change the situation in guards there after exchanging fire with a militant group in the region and also in syria it comes as the i.d.f. shoots dead one of its members a border fence and removes his body with a bulldozer. plan to. coronavirus cases spike outside china now moscow denies accusations of at this information campaign that's allegedly undermining the global response to the

epidemic. good afternoon she this is our national life from a world news h.q. here in moscow my name's kevin 0 in here to take you through our top stories this monday for next half hour or so it's great to have a company 1st city in what's being described as an a story 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 final decision if the case is ruled as politically motivated a son could be released his father meantime has claimed the case could have overarching consequences for journalism in general. the torture of julian as witnessed by new mills of you know the nation's threat to their own. all of those

reports are a viable that is what will happen to john the. public and public. if this extradition this political expedition julian the sons of his successor hundreds of supporters have been gathering to protest against astonished attention and extradition rallies being held near the court in london where the hearing is under way and also in australia in sydney a correspondent says could tell it looks next and how sanchez found himself closer than ever it seems to extradition. kero or enemy number one you decide either way judy in the song has become a name and a face recognised all over the wilds 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. huge. terrorist 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 defeating the julian assange. we just feed our most sacred rights the 48 year old australian put a target on his back when he leaked a truckload of classified u.s. documents lange 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 cohen. siddons that acquittals 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 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 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 his son should 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 those suspicions 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 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 mess that you wish the queen would intervene if the u.k. kowtows to its allies request might be dealt not just a life sentence without parole but even the death penalty if washington to side step out on the charges in the future that's if it finds

a willing jury which apparently won't be a problem. it sounds 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 there in a case like that that is a prearranged affair 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 the lid on its dirty secrets. track of the coronavirus no patience located far from the deadly epicenter in china it spiking the number italy's put emergency measures in place now over the weekend with 115

reported cases and 4 deaths many in the north of the country it's europe's 1st major outbreak overran that seeing the highest number of deaths outside china meantime local reports say there are more than 50 dead in just one region despite officials in to run confirming only 12 nationwide officially will go to italy the authorities there of canceled a carnival in venice over it major sporting events were postponed to as entire towns and communities been put in. it asia cases were infected patients surged in south korea on monday with another $161.00 people confirmed ill taking the total it almost $800.00 the government's also temporarily shut down religious movements and they colt's whose members make up a sizeable number of the known infections meantime the u.s. is accusing russia of the sidelines of all this 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 well the u.s. state department claims thousands of fake social media accounts reversing so-called russian talking points the messages apparently label it an american biological weapon being used to wage economic war on china account linked back to russian proxies are also being accused of undermining the global response more on this side there seems to be coming up daniel hawkins our correspondent on it today. 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. 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 though some were 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 bio safety 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 w.h.o. 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 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 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 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'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 in 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 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. controversial child next the former head of the anti islam english defense league is here in russia on a lectured to called the rape of britain to see if he actually lennon who goes by

the name of tony robinson 1st came to prominence for organizing controversial demonstrations last year he was jailed for contempt of court after harassing defendants outside 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 the main in the north of england and the since being banned from almost all mainstream social media sites he was challenged by artes of son a boy care on 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 generalizations but isn't that too broad and hue threatening of a statement in my writing discussion to talk about islam but muslims in general not like how can you talk about these lawmen not talk about muslims in general islam is 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 with 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 x. your marital 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 $950.00 s. the british forces used rape and castration to put down uprising seen kenya they paid compensation to the victims a few years back would 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 the rapists and their raping 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 we are talking about generalisations here of god are 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 murdered he raped his. it's such a violent scene you know that in most holy books mr i don't even know most of the most of it i'm none fees by the way but most religious people do not take their scriptures literally these days. it was a very heated exchange of tongues want to see more come on the show that right here is kind of 60 minutes passed through the afternoon in moscow ahead of its international story about

a woman who's fled to russia claiming he had children who were abused by their father. when the back. of. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we dare to ask. the chrono virus now has proven this point because even though all supply alone 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. i again this is r t international is kevin with you all right now next a stolen woman as much before the break says she's had to flee into russia to protect her daughters she's claiming asylum after her husband was acquitted of sexually abusing the children is his story is coming up.

small technical problem it's on your screens any moment here we go. there it is. also it up it's a bit it's my older daughter started scratching her face i would ask her how 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 psychologist after several sessions she told me the girls are telling the truth about what they want to it's a classic reaction an offense or a sin 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 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 star india 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 but for a long time i couldn't 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 goodbye 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 soviet of all the psychologists 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 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 out of using it as leverage 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 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. israeli defense forces have said the country south but attack by 6 missiles launched from gaza it comes after the defense minister said that tel of eve had plans to radically resolve the longstanding crisis. we're preparing a plan to fundamentally change the situation in the gaza strip i really understand the situation of the people in the south they deserve peace and security so what's his plan going to inter. headed with the middle east correspondent paula slayer on the line there from tel aviv hey paula good so strong words there from israel can we expect further escalation what about next you think. well it certainly seems as if it is on the cards we have heard from the israel defense forces home front come on that all roads or schools and the train line along the israel gaza border are

closed until further notice now this follows a deadly night of a tell a tree airstrikes conducted by the israeli army on several locations in northern gaza and on the syrian capital damascus now the israeli army says that these included sites belonging to the palestinian islamic jihad group and amongst them were weapons facilities and training sites it also says that 4 people were injured however we hearing from islamic jihad that 2 people have been killed and it has vowed to avenge those deaths. designers to gershom against damascus and the murder of 2 of our members as a result of the bombing is something that must be stopped and will not go unnoticed . now this is follows the announcement by the american president donald trump of what he called the deal of the century but almost immediately it was slammed by as being the slap of the century it was supposed to be a peace plan that would bring about lasting peace between israelis and palestinians

but as of yet none of that has materialized the timing for all of this is very significant it comes just over a week before israel goes to its food parliamentary election in a year now the country is in a political stalemate and this is despite the fact that the american president donald trump did help the israeli prime minister ban announcing. american recognition of the israeli side of the golan heights and also israeli plans to annex west bank settlements in the future many here feel that that is an attempt by netanyahu to try and win political points among his electorate. of thank you. for another flare up in the region came off his redefines forces shot dead a moan from the same jihadi group on sunday the i.d.f. then angered locals by removing the body with them armored bulldozer from the border fence be aware that the video coming out now you might find upsetting. have

. come out to show. you know nothing that. young moammar subs sure you are. they are just your own mild. cording to local media reports to other palestinians were wounded by israeli live fire as they attempted to recover the body the i.d.f. said the man along with another alleged terrorist had been planting explosive device conflicting accounts say the man was unarmed the israeli defense minister praised the soldiers handing of the situation. i back 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 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 about it. it's yet another proof of how israel in

general treats palestinians including 3 to the bodies what we have seen on t.v. suggests that they consider 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 act harsher treatment the cruel treatment how they used. to grab the body and they held the sure that we in general how they treated us that yes this is any human illegal and immoral. so much more for most of the various social media from check it out right you don't call me have got a chance to comment on the story seems good to hear from you it's coming up to 26 minutes past 3 in the afternoon here in moscow live at r.t. h.q. is kevin same place watching this bulletin more from me in just over half an hour's time between now and then more of our telhami programs for you specially made for

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a public inquiry into the dublin amman bombings. it still took 7 years for the irish government 6 years after the arias $994.00 cease fire to agree to a restricted form of inquiry under justice henry byron the inquiry found in his own careful words and despite london refusing to cooperate with the inquiry that the case for collusion was neither fanciful nor absurd. crucially however for the families bereaved by other glennon martyrs north of the border daryn published a full appendix listing the ballistic links between other key attacks after publication of the barn report it became obvious that there was still no response from the state. very serious allegations of criminality were not called the investigated that there was going to be no response and so we decided that we should respond we should bring people in and their national figures so we

approached a number of people u.n. investigators who were to el salvador people who'd worked on the set off interest commission and others academics lawyers people's experience and we invited them to ireland and i asked them to look at the evidence to me was whistleblowers to meet with families to meet with p.s. and i was seated on many others and a troll their own conclusions to draw up their own report the international panel report which is what they did and for also it was a very valuable experience to have people from outside the jurisdiction come here look at the evidence and come to their own conclusions. 10 years ago from 2004 to 2006 i had the privilege of chairing an independent international inquiry into potential collusion by british security forces in paramilitary killings of catholics.