i. claim is of russian meddling back in the headlines democratic senators are calling on president trump to slap still more sanctions on russia alleging moscow's interfering in the upcoming 20 twentieth's. a historic legal hearing begins in london to determine whether julian songs will be extradited to the united states whether we can expound those wanted on espionage charges his supporters claim the case against him is extremely weak. but we heard this morning was more of the same the same thing we've been hearing for 10 years 2020. 4 a lot of people broke single. woman requests to

saw them in russia were off to her ex-husband is a queer sort of sexually abusing their daughters he shares her story. live from moscow thanks for joining us and i thought international and daniel hawkins welcome to the program. thought so this hour u.s. democratic senators are urging the trumpet of ministration to impose additional sanctions on russia follows reports so that's in the country's meddling in the 2020 presidential election. with the latest kaleb russia gate 3 it is i guess bring us up to speed well at this point we have a letter from members of the u.s. congress in the democratic party who want new sanctions to be imposed on the russian federation take a listen. we urge you to immediately and forcefully impose sanctions on the

government of the russian federation any russian actors determined to be responsible for such interference and those acting on their behalf or providing material or financial support for these election interference efforts. now the letter went on to say there is virtually no national security threat that is more serious than those posed by those who would systemically undermine confidence in and the effective operation of our democratic elections that is a nother quote from the letter and we understand this started 1 with the country's top election security official shelby pearson she gave testimony before the house intelligence committee saying that russia is interfering in the 2020 election with the goal of helping u.s. president donald trump get reelected now u.s. president donald trump doesn't seem to buy this claim that was made before the intelligence committee this is us present donald trump. you see that i see these

ponies these that do nothing democrats they said today that cotton wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. now in addition to the skepticism we just heard from u.s. president donald trump other intelligence officials have stepped in and disproved some of these claims this is simply not adding up there's a lot of questions being asked now in addition to the allegation that russia is interfering for the purpose of getting trump reelected there have also been reports now that russia is interfering for the purpose of supporting the u.s. senator bernie sanders who continues to be leading in the democratic primaries and at this point russia has come forward a spokesperson and said that this is simply paranoia and this is not an accurate assessment of what is taking place take a listen. these are just the usual paranoid clean ups which unfortunately we will

be hearing more on as the u.s. elections approach of course they have nothing to do with the truth. now viewers will recall that the 2016 presidential elections in the united states states were filled with allegations of russian meddling and russian collusion much of which have been debunked sense that however it appears that as the 2020 presidential race gets going these allegations will be resurfacing in new forms. from new york with the latest tax credit for that update. this monday marked the thought of a historic extradition hearing in london which will decide whether the founder of wiki leaks julian assange on just handed over to the united states the whistleblower who's currently in belmarsh prison is wanted in the united states when i speak and hocking charges he could face a jail sentence of up to 175 years that he has more. it is the 1st

day of the hearing of the in britain that will decide eventually whether or not joining us always will be extradited to the u.s. as requested now his father has been talking out he's talked about julian being tortured and says what will happen to journalist it will be the same as what's happening to julian this extradition is successful. julian with. dread and. all of the old survivor guilt that is going. to join the. public public. if this extradition this political extradition julian the son and his successor. you know when i arrived this morning it was absolute chaos apparently this court has never experienced the number of people

they've had to deal with today the genocide to queue for about an hour to 2 hours and you heard chanting for the whole time of the proceedings hours and hours of chanting from supporters outside which you could hear inside the courtroom now. it was really interesting what was said we had to see james lewis and to see adnan fitzgerald you see james lewis giving the u.s. point of view. and making lots of comparisons with which is what would happen if those charges against him in songs have happened in the u.k. in terms of the british point of view speaking on behalf of the u.s. they they talked a lot about the official secrets act the 911 and 989 official secrets act which is a generally only used on spies it bans the disclosure of classified information pasta tall good foreign spies and traitors and it's also used against journalists that they've been reports of the government plans to revive this legislation this is called. huge controversy amongst journalists and the national union done this

they've raised alarm saying that this would make it easier to prosecute journalists reporting on national security issues and sources who work for them now u.s. noise have said several times and particularly today that a solid just putting people's lives at risk we can hear from the wiki leaks editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson i know he's been speaking to the media during the breaks of this process. but we heard this morning you know you wore off the same the same thing we've been hearing for 10 years we 1st heard it in july 2010. reporting live shot rich and now jane years later there's no evidence of torture but on the contrary to the contrary wonderful officials. you know nobody tried to tell you to do you know what he had. because you do serve revelations and when you

turn when you love it and. they are in your. single evidence that is still there. so the 1st day over and you can see that this is a really highly controversial case some argue one of the most important cases against press freedom i saw it is seen as being a champion in the cause of transparency and freedom and we will of course be following this over the course of the week. it's certainly been a long and taxing legal saga for julian a song saskia title looks now about how the we can expound a has found himself 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 wild 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 song is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant was her 6 own 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 the 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 how at the very highest levels with the us justice department hot on his heels as some sort of saddam in london's ecuadorian embassy the 7 known years before suddenly and unceremoniously being dragged out by british police. or fire or a stab in the back and perhaps coincidence that aquittal is 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 4 walls of the embassy to the 4 walls of a jail cell as someone who was taken to london's belmarsh prison and handed an exceptional sentence in britain by a violations seldom need to prison sentences they are generally subject only to finds a son by contrast was sentenced in summary proceedings to 50 weeks in a maximum security prison clearly a disproportionate penalty that had only a single purpose holding a century long enough for the us to prepare the espionage case against him he and his lawyer had just 15 minutes. path of 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 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 mr stan she could die in prison the medical situation is there or by urgent there is no time to lose against this backdrop is it surprising that suspicion swaddling around the extradition trial especially given the u.s. u.k. treaty clearly states no 6 that can be extradited the political purposes which many tame at this is imo washington says this case is strictly about national security it seems queen elizabeth the 2nd didn't get the memo. i must tell you however that is a constitutional sovereign majesty acts on the advice of him ministers and remain strictly nonpolitical at all times this is therefore not a message in which the queen would intervene if the u.k. kowtows to its allies request might be dealt not just

a life sentence without parole but even the death penalty if washington decide stepped out on the charges in the future that's if it finds a willing jury which apparently will be a problem. you will receive a trial by jury in alexandria virginia the new tourist 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 affair a show trial to make an example of julian assange 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 meanwhile the family of harry done

a british 19 year old who was killed in a road accident last august are calling for a saunders extradition to block they say the u.s. 1st needs to hand over. the woman suspected of taking their son's life she was the wife of an american diplomat has admitted she was driving on the wrong side of the road she left the u.k. shortly after the tragic incident claiming diplomatic community despite requests from the british government to washington says it won't agree to extradition lawyer for the don family has accused the u.s. of rank hypocrisy. whilst america is. protecting her harbor the person who's accused of killing her and jun they have no business calling pretty extradition anybody from the united kingdom it is it is it is but once i can find out where is this just discussed encounter the cases are completely different but the over arching principle of reciprocity routes all

extradition cases if the united states is going to rip up the extradition treaty between the u.s. new case as it's done here then you know the united kingdom needs to stand up to it up and both countries need to abide by the extradition treaty so you know we are very clear working you know doing our best to work with the u.k. government to make sure that the decision that the united states has made to not actually this is not accepted but we are in the middle of a diplomatic standoff it's one of the darkest moments. in the u.s. u.k. relationship. and estonian woman said she's had to flee to russia to protect her daughters she's claiming asylum off her husband was acquitted of sexually abusing their children she shared her story with our team. 1st of all set up 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 their 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 if the us was when our younger daughter was born he offered to be their older daughter i need something from the bathroom so iraq turn without knocking i opened the door they were not washing they were not even in the bath they were just standing there naked and i went on to describe the horrific details of that incident 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 when they'd 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 couldn't it 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 the cause of 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 and 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 influence or us an idea so he was acquitted he then sued his wife and in 2018 managed to win custody of the children mr finster us and denies the allegations against him my father was accused of doing something to authority importing old started using it as leverage but 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 you austin fencer us and was due to take the girls to norway so on a decides to flee to russia taking the girls with them now being looked after a while and his asylum claim is being processed. at least in a central german town of all its mass and say around 30 people including children have been injured after a car plowed into a carnival procession the drivers been detained and the authorities are investigating the incident peter all of

a the details. of the chief of police in frying 1st is confirmed that 30 people were injured 7 of those seriously including children after a car plowed into a carnival goes attending the rose and month celebrations in central germany the frank 1st attorney general's office have taken over the investigation they're describing it as looking deliberate at the moment but of but as far as they're concerned it doesn't appear to be either a political or extremist act a 29 year old man understood to be from the vaults martin area was arrested at the see that all carnival events in the region have been canceled because of this eyewitnesses describe the car having accelerated into the crowd. traveled some 30 meters that's why so many people would see have been injured police had to protect the suspect as he was being taken into custody from angry members of that crowd who

were trying to get to him to find out exactly what was behind this incident that as they say according to the chief of police of frankfurt has left 30 people injured 7 of those seriously after a car crashed into carnival goers in the central german city of. the german chancellor's christian democrats have suffered a devastating blow in state elections and support for the party of plunging to a meager 11.2 percent of the sooner you finish then a distant 3rd place behind the social democrats and the greens leaving its leaders in disarray. i will get straight to the ball and not beat around the bush it is a beautiful day for the german c.d.u. it's a historically bad election result for the c.d.u. in hamburg. with popular support for the c.d.u. slipping german media have mockingly dubbed the party the chaotic demoralize the

union arguing that it suffered its deepest crisis in 2 decades where the unions have been compounded further by this month's announcement that its leader. will resign once a replacement is found one scene is going to merkel's hand-picked successor for the chancellorship the moves raised doubts about the political course being charted by both party and country we asked political commentator stephen meissner just how dire the situation is for germany's christian democrats it's looking pitch black for the c.d.u. . there's basically seems to have missed out on our exit time and the whole game is starting to fall apart right before very eyes she is in the process of destroying the c.d.u. here it's i would place this whole disaster basically firmly on her shoulders she's not left enough time for a successor to really move in and fill her boots and take over the place themselves again some experience and place them selves in a position to be able to fight win an election in 2021 so she's just not left

enough room for people and she's missed her exit point basically she's really missed it. a 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 4 deaths it's europe's 1st major outbreak what iran has the highest number of deaths outside china officials there have raised the number to 12 earlier this monday or thirty's in italy cancel the carnival in venice major sporting events were also postpone as entire towns and communities were put on lockdown. in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday with another 161 people confirmed ill takes the toll there to almost 800 the government's also temporarily shut down religious movements and the cult whose members make up a sizeable number of the known infections meanwhile the u.s.

is accusing russia of spreading alarm and coronavirus linked to conspiracy theories . by spreading disinformation about coronavirus russian malign actors are once again choosing to threaten public safety by distracting from the global health response. the u.s. state department alleges that thousands of fake social media accounts are pushing what it cools russian talking points some of the posts apparently claim for instance that the virus is an american bottle jackal weapon that is being used to inflict but it's an economic damage on china the misinformation is said to be undermining the global response to the epidemic little cool to reports. foreign meddling support for donald trump and sowing discord the saga continues you'd think by now the u.s. state department would have burned through its reasons to blame russia for everything under the sun but with the coronavirus epidemic in full swing it looks like they're just getting started russia's intent is to sow discord and undermine u.s. institutions and lines is from within including through convincing coercive malign

influence campaigns moscow says washington is just stirring up trouble and that could be the case but we're not even allowed to investigate the accusations officials are clinging to the details of the classified report kept secret by the state department's global engagement center it apparently accuses russia of using fake social media accounts to spread conspiracy theories about america's involvement in spreading the coronavirus but if we compare the secret reports charges against russia to what moscow was actually doing we see 2 very different pictures. of.

if it's conspiracy theories american officials are looking for they might find them closer to home they are the ones publicly casting doubt on the official information coming out of china while some of them were later retracted allegations that the virus came from a chinese bio weapons. lab work quick to emerge stateside just a few miles away from that 3rd market is china's only biosafety level 4 super laboratory bed and researches human infectious diseases they have lied consistently about this virus from the beginning 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 world health organization has called for all sides to think twice before making accusations and the chinese envoy to the u.s. has warned of the damage inaccurate information can cause the 29000 and covert outbreak and response is 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 stop suspicion rumors and spread them among the people for once and this will create panic friend. racial discrimination as you know phobia there might be a lot of confusion and mudslinging but at least u.s. officials are trying to look on the bright side of this worldwide epidemic 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 and while

washington continues to accuse russia of undermining the country's institutions they seem to be doing a good job of that already russia serves a very important purpose. and american politics these days rather than add a lot of thing 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 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. the israeli defense forces say palestinian militants in the occupied gaza strip are fired multiple rockets into southern israel this comes off of the defense minister said tel of evil plans to radically result of 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 well it certainly seems as if it is on the cards we have heard from the israel defense forces home front command that all roads all schools and the train line along the israel gaza border are closed until further notice now this follows a deadly night of the 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 zionist aggression 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 well this is comes after the american president donald trump's so-called deal of the century which was supposed to see a long lasting peace between israelis and palestinians but has been slammed as the slap of the century by the palestinians one of this coming just a week before israel holds its 3rd parliamentary election in a year the country is in a political deadlock now at the same time the americans have to recognize israeli sovereignty of the golan heights and also put in place plans for israeli an extension of the west bank all of this is being seen here by many as attempts by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to win political points up next are

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the russia gay folks lives on the sequel has just been released starring of course donald trump but also now bernie sanders indeed russia gave his achieved a cult like status also turkey on the ropes in syria. and. in dublin the campaign group justice for the forgotten had for years been demanding a public inquiry into the double in amman. it still took 7 years for the irish government 6 years after the ira's $994.00 cease fire to agree to or a strict form of inquiry under justice henry barr on the inquiry found in his own careful word.