our lie with the people demonstrates that struggle the very real. struggle. claims of russian meddling are back in the headlines the democratic senators are calling for president trying to slap still more sanctions on russia alleging moscow is interfering in the upcoming 2020 election. and historical legal hearing begins in london to determine whether doing a song will be extradited to the us where the wiki leaks founder is wanted on hacking and espionage charges that supporters claim the case against him is extremely weak. but we have good morning to say the same thing we've been hearing for years but if. they are in court. for a single. and a stony and a woman requests asylum in russia after her ex-husband is acquitted of sexually

abusing their daughters she shares her story with our. broadcast direct from our studios in moscow this is art international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us for us a democratic senators are urging the trumpet ministration to impose additional sanctions on russia following the reports alleging the country is meddling in the 2020 presidential election. a letter from congressional democrats was presenting a sensually calling for more sanctions to be imposed on russia in response to allegations of russia trying to interfere in the 2020 presidential election which will take place in november here's some of what was included in the letter. we urge you to immediately draw upon the reported conclusions of the intelligence community

to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing elections interference including president putin the government of the russian federation any russian actors determined to be directly responsible and those acting on their behalf or providing material or financial support for their efforts now as you heard the letter even called for directly sanctioning the russian head of state russian president vladimir putin now we know that these new allegations about the upcoming election are can be traced back to shelby pearson now shelby pearson is a an intelligence community figure in the united states who is basically at this point the top election security official and she testified before the u.s. house of representatives intelligence committee about allegations that russia is somehow planning to meddle in the 2020 vote for the purpose of making sure that donald trump is reelected now donald trump in response to her testimony said he did

not buy that this was trump's response to allegations that russia is trying to help him win the white house for another term did you see that i see these phoneys 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 much of shelby's claim has been disputed and debunked by other figures in the u.s. intelligence community furthermore in the aftermath of this claim from shelby pearson that russia is meddling for the purpose of reelecting trump we now have allegations that russia is meddling for the purpose of electing a u.s. senator bernie sanders from vermont so russia is at this point being accused of taking 2 different sides in the upcoming vote however russia has been very adamant that this is simply not true the russian. government officials have been very adamant that they are not trying to interfere in the u.s. voting process take

a listen to what has been said in response to these allegations in u.s. media and from u.s. officials which these are just the usual paranoid cleanups which unfortunately you will be hearing more. action should approach. of course you have nothing to do with the truth. now in 2016 there were widespread allegations of russian meddling russian collusion in the us election process those allegations continued after the election there was a long investigation and much of what had initially been said was debunked the facts simply didn't add up it wasn't true but regardless of everything the united states has been through and all the allegations that have been hurled and debunked in the last 4 years it seems like now as the 2020 vote approaches and in november once again the united states will be going to the polls to determine who will be president it seems that allegations about russia will once again be surfacing and that this will be once again part of the election process in determining who will

be the president of the united states for the following 4 years political analyst alessandro bruno thinks that blaming russia is convenient both for republicans and democrats. blaming russia is convenient for both parties because that way they can avoid speaking about real problems and real issues and policy none of the parties are speaking about policy in fact. put any. blame for whatever outcome in the election russia that's the only logical reason that i could come up for these stories to be. resurfacing again after they failed so so badly you know over the past 3 years of this story. we've had. monday marks of the start of an historic extradition hearing in london which will decide whether the founder of wiki leaks julian

a songe is handed over to the united states the whistleblower who is currently in belmarsh prison is wanted in the u.s. on espionage and hacking charges and could face a sentence of up to 175 years artie's new dear tutor as more. the u.k. system stalls to decide whether judith martin will indeed be extradited to the us on their request when i came here this morning they were accused of journalists and protesters here apparently this court has never seen so many people before so they are finding it a little bit hard to handle now didn't assault his father has spoken out he's spoken of his torture and says that it will happen to all journalists this expedition is a successful tour of julian with new mills with you know the nation's threat to. all of those records revival that is. the

journal. publishing and publication it's just extradition this political extradition julian the son is 6 or so we've heard from the british point of view the those who are having to speak up and think about allowing this extradition they spoken a lot about the official secrets the 911 and 989 official secrets which isn't generally only used on spies it bans the disclosure of classified information passed to target foreign spies and traitors and it's also used against journalists there have been reports that the government wants to revamp that legislation you can hear from the wiki leaks editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson and he's been speaking to the media during the breaks of this process what we heard this morning are your war of the same the same thing we've been hearing for 10 years we 1st heard it in july 2010 reporting lives at risk and now 10 years later

there is no evidence of torture but on the contrary to the country under one official was forced to admit in the modern trial of 2030. but nobody had been physically harmed because of the server revelations in 20102011 now in 2020 they are in court not able to produce sent a single evidence of that hard still they go on day one of this hearing is going to go on for another week and i'm still will be here to tell you exactly what goes on it has certainly been a long and taxing legal saga for joining us on our 2 saskia taylor looks now at how the wiki leaks founder 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 penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. bitch song is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant was her 6 own was wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service by defeating the surely i'm not sure we define the dome or sacred rights the 48 year old australian put a target on his back when he leaked 8 of classified u.s. documents langue 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 iran 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 find 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 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 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 that suspicion 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 message in which the queen would intervene if the u.k. kowtows to its allies request as might be doubt not just a life sentence without parole but even the death penalty if washington to sidestep the charges in the future if it finds a willing jury which apparently won't be a problem. to 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. that is a prearranged of a show trial to make an example of julian a son the point is to intimidate other journalists global outcry human rights the law or 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 its secrets meanwhile the family of harry and don a british 1000 year old who was killed in a road accident last august are calling for his extradition to be blogged they say the u.s. needs to hand over. the woman suspected of taking their son's life she is the wife of an american diplomat and has admitted that she was driving on the wrong side of the road she left the u.k. shortly after the tragic incident claiming diplomatic immunity and despite requests from the british government washington says it will not agree to her extradition the lawyer for the dunn 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 what

they're trying to find out where it's just discussed in congress here the cases are completely different but the over arching principle of reciprocity runs 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 work with the u.k. government and to make sure that the decision that the united states has made it's not actually good 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. in a stunning woman says that she has had to flee to russia to protect her daughters she's claiming asylum after her husband was acquitted of sexually abusing their

children here's her story. it's a bit 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 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 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 turn without knocking i opened the door they were not washing the way not even in the bath they were just standing there naked and i went on to describe the horrific details of that incident 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 that 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 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 on a 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 that it was painful but later at the trial the qs 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 and so he was acquitted he then sued his wife and in 28000 managed to win custody of the children mr finster us and denies all the allegations against him my father was accused of doing something to a 1314 year old started losing that's the leverage that my father was like that then i'll have to be like that i'm a loser to 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 them now being looked after while on his asylum claim is being processed. as

a coronavirus case as a spike outside china moscow has emphatically rejected accusations it has been waging an online dissent from ation campaign that's very much more after a short break this is our international. the russia gay folks 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. the point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge for things it has because it's a benefit to the person is buying it and that's the audiology took over education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that

education is a benefit for society and jack. i wouldn't want to live in a society with. or without economists. saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill basis we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that school on the individuals and what we've turned it into is just now the churn institution. version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for a functional. desire to international now the german chancellor's christian democrats have suffered a devastating blow in state elections in hamburg with support for the party plunging to a meager 11.2 percent the c.d.u. finished in a distant 3rd place behind the social democrats and the greens leaving its leaders

in disarray. i will get straight to the. bush it is a. historically election results for the cd. with popular support for the c.d.u. slipping and german media has mockingly dubbed the party the chaotic demoralized the union arguing that it is suffering its deepest crisis in 2 decades now the unions woes have been compounded further by this month's announcement that its leader on the ground. will resign once a replacement is found and once seen as picked successor for its chancellorship the move has raised doubts about the political course being charted by both the party and the country we asked political commentator stephen just how dire the situation is for christian democrats. it's looking pitch black for the c.d.u. . basically seems to have missed out on their exit time and the whole game is

starting to fall apart right before very eyes she's 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 gain some experience and place them selves in a position to be able to fight and 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. the number of corona virus patients located far from the deadly epicenter in china has suddenly spined italy put emergency measures in place over the weekend with 150 reported cases and 4 deaths it is europe's 1st major outbreak while iran has the highest number of deaths outside china with officials there raising the number to 12 earlier on monday and the authorities in italy cancelled

a carnival in venice major sporting events were postponed as well as entire towns and communities were put on lockdown in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday with another $161.00 people confirmed sick taking the total there to almost $800.00 the government has also temporarily shut down religious movements and a cult whose members make up a sizeable number of the known infections meanwhile the u.s. senate is accusing russia of spreading alarm and coronavirus link conspiracy theories by spreading disinformation about coronavirus. once again choosing to threaten public safety by distract you from the global house response. well the u.s. state department alleges that thousands of fake social media accounts are pushing what it calls russian talking points some of the posts apparently claim for instance that the virus is an american biological weapon and is being used to to inflict political and economic damage on china the misinformation is said to be

undermining the global response to the epidemic artie's done quarter 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 his 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 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 we have lived consistently about this virus if you give me

a senior administration official told me that the united states does not have quote high confidence in the information coming out of china. this point the world health organization has called for all sides to think twice before making accusations and the chinese envoy to the us has warned of the damage inaccurate information can cause the 29000 and covert outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive info demick an overabundance of information some accurate and some not that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it so very harmful it's very dangerous to stir up suspicion rumors and spread them among the people forwarded this to a crowd panicked 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 on other counties even close elyse to supply us with needed items from face masks 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 u.s. just the u.s.

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. dozen from l.b. about one is a thought they are that's in about $32.00 and a half minutes stay with us. all. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports this list i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be cross that's like the full story in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters of our. first sip. the world is driven by drama shaped by one person of those great.

dares thinks. we dare to ask. people. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle russia gay lives in the sequel has just been released starring of course donald trump but also now bernie sanders indeed russia 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 dimitri she'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 crossed out 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 fine.