here. to be reached. 2 pm tuesday afternoon right now here in moscow in the headlines for you a surge in corona virus cases in europe in asia. after a wave of confirmed patients now and its neighboring countries are questioning the e.u. open borders lot of people concerned. for the headlines it's the 2nd. u.s. extradition hearing in london as a grieving british family. pleading with the u.k. to release the wiki leaks founder unless the u.s. hands over the suspected killer. we hear from the family's lawyer. the. relationship. public anger at northern ireland's police over advice

leaflets linking alcohol consumption with rape we discussed claims that the forces fall into victim blaming. they have to be louder and louder because unfortunately people in the sight of politicians or the policeman they hear we. by all means book . their life martin to nationals world news h.q. here in moscow welcome to the program with me kevin always good to have you along i'm going to take through our top stories for the next half hour if you will starting with this the worries about what's happening with corona virus the world health organization is warning of a potential pandemic as cases of the deadly things spike across europe and asia italy iran and south korea have now emerged as infection hotspots. this is

a time for all countries communities families and individuals to falters on preparing. we do not believe in a binary black and white world it's not either or we must focus on containment why do we everything we can to prepare for a politician pound a week 80000 cases have been confirmed globally now with almost 3000 deaths a far it's just a single week's in south korea witnessing a huge increase in infections iran has the highest number of deaths outside china 15 and they're known to have died or unconfirmed reports put that figure much higher and in europe italy has become the 1st country to be hit with a serious outbreak with more than $200.00 infected there and 7 deaths in fact several towns in northern italy have been sealed off neighboring nations of called emergency meetings no 2 to try to prevent the spread of the virus and they're questioning whether the open border policy should be suspended is our europe

correspondent peter oliver. tens of thousands of people a lot down in quarantine and north and it's only because of the virus with one of the issues fundamental freedoms the freedom of movement taking a hate. going to.

train services between italy and austria were temporarily suspended and in fronts the right wing of politics there is saying that that country's border with italy should be closed and given the mood of i would prefer to do too much and rather than not enough perhaps closing the borders is necessary if the epidemic is out of control in italy each year on foot we can harbor a very serious concerns about there are people in france in my heart of the markets so i request precautionary measures in my letter to the prime minister as i mentioned measures of reinforcing the border control holding china it's really does france control its borders no it doesn't and effective action plan however involves controlling entry from risky or contaminated areas let's have national borders once and for all rumania which has a significant proportion of its citizens living and working even if it's only for that i'll stick to week quarantine period for anyone returning from that country

romania might be more exposed to cross. virus cases on the national territory these measures are similar to the ones taken by the italian authorities government officials insist that closing the borders remains an issue of last resort not only because of the impact it would have on public morale but also it would be very bad for business. a president there absolutely no grounds for pursuing a suspension of the schengen treaty it would be a draconian measure to take to contain the infection there are no circumstances under which this would not have a devastating impact on our economy and then what we want to do with italy turn it into a quarantine facility. closing the borders would make no sense as the circulation of the virus is not just limited to administers of borders we asked people what they thought about borders and whether they should remain open. sea and maybe that's the only way to stop that i i don't care if it's scary to be contained for

sure but i'm not sure completely closing everything is the right answer if there was a closed borders then we're looking at a good thing that we're starting to look at a pandemic you trust in the government study you know it's not necessary to close the borders and enter into a crisis when everyone is afraid and live in paranoia i think that we need to continue to live as we leave before so for me it's just save them closing the borders is quite problematic especially when thinking about trade and other things we should wait for more serious cases it is better to introduce border controls even within the use of the virus gets in we will have problems i think it was necessary need to leave to take measures in advance but it's a real unsurety about what to do about the coronavirus among people on the streets here in europe with most hoping that national governments have haven't peter all of a. so keeping a close eye on but this one too it's being called

a trial for journalism around the world is day 2 of june in the songes u.s. extradition. hearing gets underway in london weeklies co-founder is wanted in america on espionage and hacking charges and could face 175 years behind bars if found guilty in the u.s. after publishing classified intelligence data well day one yesterday the hearing loss of a 6 hours here is some sketches from the court because filming inside is bad and while outside protesters gathered to supporters inside defense lawyers argued that the case was politically motivated while the prosecution claimed the whistleblower's actions endangered lives children songes father insists his son's actions arms no one. pentagon and admitted under oath in cho's remaining straws the body had been hurt by the release or so why aren't we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of which is in 20 advantage when 11 why aren't we here talking in court about the war crimes

yes as a nation of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists there is why we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america. our only voices to get a sound his extradition blocked is the family of a british teenager who was killed in a road accident last august harry dunn's parents say the u.s. 1st needs to hand over answer colas the woman suspected of killing their son she is the wife of an american diplomat and has admitted driving on the wrong side of the road she fled the u.k. shortly afterwards claiming diplomatic immunity despite requests from the british government washington to this day says it will not agree to her extradition done family's lawyer accuses the u.s. of rank hypocrisy. well asked america is. protecting her the person who's accused of killing her son they have no business calling pretty

extradition anybody from the united kingdom it is it is it is what they're trying to find out where this is just discussed in congress the cases are completely different but the over the principle of reciprocity runs all extradition cases that the united states is going to revoke the extradition treaty between the u.s. and as it's done here then you know the united kingdom needs to stand up to both countries need to abide by the extradition treaty so you know we are very clear working you know doing our best work u.k. government. to make sure that the decision that the united states has made it's not actually this is not but we are in the middle of a magic standoff it's one of the darkest moments. in the u.s. u.k. the relationship. police in northern ireland apologized after leaflets linking alcohol consumption to rape were wrongly circulated in belfast so the incident

triggered it angry backlash in the city with many accusing the force of participating in a culture of victim blaming the flyers claim that many sexual abuse cases happen when people are drunk and outlined ways individuals can protect themselves the police service went on to say that these leaflets that would be discontinued a number of years ago and it's investigating why they were distributed in the 1st place it's also stressed rape victims are never felt but i wasn't good enough for many. this left that is a horrible example of victim blaming from those who are meant to protect the victim this is an issue that has come up again and again and we thought that the lesson had been learned police need to step away from the complaining these leaflets rebirths that dear the police can you please get some don't be a massive and stop attacking women leaflets to distribute please how can you prevent a crime you routinely fail to understand with this victim blaming nonsense. or

discuss the follow through is controversial flower for british police officer peter kirk and also women's rights activists paula dyer. always the same and the same thing happening again and again we are in 2020 and still with the the blaming the victim of rape but please don't imply i'm in right for anything else what they do do and they have an absolute duty to do is provide people with crime prevention and personal safety advice it would be utterly ridiculous if they didn't shouldn't get drunk come on everyone knows that but why you should put that in these you know in this leaflet why you should connect this to rape that's the bad thing people need to avoid making themselves vulnerable to all sorts of things by drinking so much that they don't understand where they are and what they're doing and we see every friday and saturday night in every town center but this is and how sick a is you know so this is

a common sense thing for everyone as i said to you don't you shouldn't connect this to rape in your day or to prevent rape you should go in target men who are violent or let's say these loud and clear you keep asking for things that are effectively the moon on the street how can the police go and find a rapist before they been a rapist and persuade them not to be right pissed it simply isn't the posture of violence there is a pattern of violence you knew know that and whether or not you he's alert the police intervene their efforts are not helped by exaggerated and inaccurate claims by campaigners and i'm sorry i don't agree with him when he says that it's exaggerated no every time we men speak but it's never exaggerated it's finally our voices are heard you know what we have enough we have enough of this culture of this protect our culture too we need to be united if you agree with me that if this is a social emergency and i'm talking about sexual abuse and domestic violence we need

to find are always working together isn't helped by one party or exaggerates. claiming that the other party is a lying there is no grounds for expect for a claim in person i will service in all of northern ireland are lying when they say these were old leaflets but somehow through some mistake which will undoubtedly turn into some jury of administrative error. it is why why are you what grounds of you got to say in the police service of northern ireland the lying and that's basically what you're doing it's not because every family every this town's like an excuse i'm sorry i mean what you should be responsible for what your printer what you put out for how you want to stay over there and also tell us why they're all there when exactly which year they were written who wrote them so give us some kind of you know for more information see if it's true we men there have to be louder and louder because unfortunately people in the society of politicians and policemen they are only here are if we are allowed to be allowed by all means but

be accurate. the kremlin has strongly reiterated that russia is not interfering in us internal democrat state side have been urging the waters to impose additional sanctions on moscow including president putin it follows meddling claims ahead of november's presidential election with russia accused of helping candidates from both main parties. a letter from congressional democrats was presented 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 we urge you 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 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 did you see that i see these ponies these that do nothing . 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. russian federation does not interfere in other country's internal political process whose we appeal to politicians to stop playing the blame game it's especially striking political forces in washington are exploiting this myth for their opportunistic getting making totally own grounded and fictitious russian linked allegations against each other is becoming a american political tradition 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 and determining who will be the president of the united states for the following 4 years. proud to be broadcasting from russia around the world proud to be its internationally great the oldest and what new amazon online drama series is brandied dangerous its depiction of the holocaust as we report on so many of the stories too was about after the break.

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day or thinks. we dare to ask. again this is new in the u.s. president is currently on a very colorful picturesque to day state visit to india lots of photo opportunities with both countries bogged down in an ongoing rather more dull trade standoff of a terrorist the trips being criticized have been more about the scenery and what's being signed washington the new delhi did confirm a defense deal with $3000000000.00 but couldn't for anything more than that when it came to trade talks. another major focus of my discussions with prime minister modi is forging bilateral economic relationships that is fair and recent prickle our teams have made tremendous progress on a comprehensive trade agreement and i am optimistic we can reach

a deal well before donald trump's arrival in the subcontinent india was determined to pull out all the stops to make it a red carpet welcome the authorities ordered a massive cleanup operation for a start of the neighborhoods around the taj mahal exhibit pictures they sell for roads and piles got a lick of paint on the wall was put up quick smart for security reasons too but many have criticized it for hiding the poorest suburbs behind all that the city of agra nonetheless it was all singing and dancing went on from eventually touched down. a former u.s. marine and director of an afghan study group and i think a hoto dottie's watch in the hopes that donald trump is playing india off against china and russia. the united states looks to india to countered shina.

at this point india is the 2nd largest importer of weapons in the world after saudi arabia and right now there are biggest supplier of weapons or the russians and so the united states would love to you know to force india from its relationship with russia get more of that weapons market and then use india kind of as a wedge against both pakistan china so the law here with this $3000000000.00 sale besides the fact that this is what trevor the president likes to do he likes to make deals for the defense industry. i can tell you if you're watching r.t. outside of the u.s. that episode will be coming up in full in around 10 minutes time if you're an american or and watching right now will be on your screens in about an hour's time just so you can not miss him right next door to this. online giant amazon is under fine under fire rather from jewish groups over

a new series on his video streaming platform the shows called hunters which the memorial museum describes as dangerously foolish over its depictions of the holocaust in particular its own groover a scene of a human chessboard of nazis killing jewish inmates at a death camp which the museum says is a caricature of people suffering all the drama stars know and centers on the vigilante nazi hunters of the 1970 s. who tracked down hundreds of escaped war criminals who fled to the us. you know of . people like been big. stone of meat. 2 thirds of. the show's creator is the grandson of a holocaust survivor he's defended the chess scene saying it was deliberately. done to counteract the white washing of some of the worst atrocities committed by man

has been called up before for allowing ethically dubious items linked to the holocaust to be sold on its website including t. shirts the picture of a nazi execution and a jewish person and it's themed christmas decorations both those products were removed but the questionable items still remain. history central editor newsweek columnist mark children believes amazon has to take more social responsibility i think that amazon's series may have gone a little bit beyond where i would have been comfortable going as an historian we always have to be careful we have to be careful because the line between documentary history and the line between what a movie maker can make up it's a difficult line it's but a company this big it has to take a social responsibility and i think it has to be careful if you're 1000000 sellers now and amazon now can you can they pull lease all 1000000 sellers yes they could but it requires tremendous effort and they don't do enough of that amazon worries mostly about its profits like any big corporation and they have to be responsible

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greetings and sell you take a shit. this week has definitely started off in the world of law and order hawk watchers with the completion of one media frenzied trial of the celebrity at the center and the beginning of another i'm speaking of course about the conclusion of harvey weinstein's rape trial in new york at the start of juliana songe extradition hearings in london both occurring this monday the 24th of 2020 page but tragically real life isn't a dick wolf series and there isn't a jack mccoy or lennie briscoe in sight when it comes to these 2 rather unusual and crazy trials yes monday was not a good day for the house of weinstein of a new york jury convicted the famed hollywood producer and mogul on charges of 3rd degree rape and a count of committing a criminal sexual act in the 1st degree while the jury didn't convict weinstein of the stronger charges against him which included 1st degree rape and 2 counts of

predatory sexual assault for many this was still an important court victory for the hashtag need to movement meanwhile ladies and gentlemen across the atlantic pond the extradition hearings began for wakey leaks founder and publisher julian a son of a son just facing 18 charges here in the united states of america violating the espionage act and hacking if convicted the sons could face up to 175 years in prison but 1st the british courts will have to extradite him to the united states and this is worse than just lawyers are trying to draw the proverbial line in the sand assad's attorney edwards's gerald argued that essentially the u.s. is persecuting julian a songe not prosecuting him telling the packed courtroom today that julian a son just being made an example of president trump and his administration decide.