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ignoring that the skill basis we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that school on the individuals who were turned it into is just another try an institution of higher education become a form a version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for a functional society. live from moscow at 6 pm it's in the headlines this started with the wiki leaks founder julian. killing underway in london for a 2nd day his lawyers claim the whistleblowers being badly mistreated by british authorities their locations have been echoed by the publisher supporters to. of course used to weld. to shoot and make life unbearable for him. here cannot have a proper turns to prepare for this trial. elsewhere in the south of the ship shouldn't government announces 3 days of mourning after the country's 4th president
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hosni mubarak has died at the age of 91 look at the legacy of his 30 years in power . and. britain's 4 time olympic champion mo farah faces fresh media scrutiny over claims that he lied to us doping officials about his alleged use of a controversial supplement it's all coming up. by their life martin financials world news h.q. in moscow were saying just turned 6 in the evening now it's kevin owen who for next half hour to take you through the stories as reported from here in russia today thanks for your company 1st day 2 of wiki leaks founder julian assange is hearing on extradition to the united states with a whistleblower is wanted on espionage and hacking charges if handed over he could be facing a 175 year prison sentence. for his role in the publication of classified intelligence
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data is supporters say the case is a test of fundamental journalistic freedoms so let's rewind back a bit day one of the hearing yesterday lasted for 6 hours here are some sketches from the court because filming inside is banned outside protesters gathered vocally to support him inside defense lawyers argue that the case was politically motivated while the prosecution in turn played the whistle blows actions endangered lives julius and his father insists his son's actions harmed no one i spoke just a bit earlier today in an exclusive for you to wiki leaks editor in chief kristen have france and about his expectations for this hearing. what's happened today and what you make of the arguments for julie songes extradition presented so far yesterday we heard very shallow and hollow arguments from the us. that have since then yesterday afternoon and especially this morning been torn apart by the lawyers
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of julian a science they are basically present into the drugs that she has to take into consideration that the extradition request is based on fabrication and they can easily be proved by publicly available information cheerio that is available to you in the states so the abuse here is that the english court is being misled by america's they are trying to abuse the process of evolution the guardian newspaper quite alarming headline it says julie the sound was handcuffed 11 times stripped naked twice now this case files confiscated after the 1st day was accidentally hearing that's according to his lawyers do you know i think about that it's really outrageous the fact of the matter with that the court building here is only around the corner and is joined by on the. tunnel to the prison. what on earth can justify the fact of hand coughing up 1st. 11 times in the simple
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process of getting him from a to b. and then back and what is most concerning how on earth can they take away his legal documents yesterday when he was back into the prison building i mean this is not the the thing that you should expect in a civilized country where she would rise concerns are highlighted i mean of course he is not well that you can just imagine the the. what this does mentally to a person to have to be stripped of basically his freedom for almost a decade in the last few months in a maximum security prison here. where everything was done to humiliate and make life unbearable for him. he has not had a proper chance to prepare for this trial and seems sort of has to defend the story more lives on the physical side of this they're saying that they're worried there's a danger it could commit suicide are you worried about that it is steve that.
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julian is suffering and that's the professional opinion that will be presented in details that if it is imminent that he will be actually dieted that is certainly a very high risk of suicide yes the even in the hearing for last 2 days but you would is that because you're not allowed to go in i was told specifically that the court had. decided that i would not be allowed into the public gallery under what. i had to go out so i was giving no grounds and i was went to search for they had off the court here in the building the head of the office was not available so i went out and i made a statement it was treated 7 far white and retreated and within a couple of minutes i was approached i was told that there had a misunderstanding had occurred and they actually apologized and i have demanded written the explanation. what occurred what does it feel like when you walk in does
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it feel extremely heavy almost what it feel like the conditions at the court hearing here are totally inadequate for a hearing of the officer borden's julian is in the dock behind bulletproof glass he hears it often that he has a hard time hearing what's going on in the room it's a rather small courtroom and that's. very small space for the public world a small space for the media. this is. somewhat not what i expected for a very important hearing you think you'd ever get a fair trial in the u.s. my primary concern is will you get a fair trial here of the u.k. it's important that the outcome here is just that it's monitored every abuse is highlighted or that they were the basis. for christmas and talk a little bit earlier on and 3 days of mourning have been announced in egypt after its former president hosni mubarak died this tuesday at the age of 91 mubarak
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served as the country's 4th head of state ruling for 30 years before used to pose during the arab spring protests that erupted in cairo in early twenty's pulis near a middle east correspondent was in egypt in danger in the whole arab spring thing such a lot of news to report about from there and indeed your best place to talk a little bit about hosni mubarak's life and legacy. well he said he leaves behind a mixed legacy on the one hand he is credited with transforming the gyptian economy to a market one but on the other hand his human rights record is far the dismal to say the least now as you say i was in egypt for many countless hours reporting on the fabled 2011 egypt and revolution and i remember those hidden happy excited days of the arab spring when egyptians of all ages particularly youngsters came to takia square and when i interviewed them they said that they really believed that this was going to bring about change for them mubarak represented if we. that was wrong
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with egypt political oppression widespread corruption economic stagnation and when i asked youngsters what they felt his legacy was many told me that they believed that mubarak would be remembered for uniting egyptians ironically against him take a look. now hosni mubarak was in power for nearly 3 decades he came to the presidency after the previous egyptian president anwar sadat was assassinated when barak saw that assess a nation up close and it affected him deeply he spent much of his career making
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sure that the islamic extremists would never come to power and putting in place a very strong police and security apparatus in the country so much so that i and other journalists remember that during the egyptian revolution we were often tear gassed as were ordinary protestors at the same time when i reported some live positions very often there would be a laser beam that would shine in my face as a way to try and intimidate me. it was just it was people who watched me in times square as you can see eating was. patient. people's voices here are loud but they're being drawn down by 16 is it me 20 one's trying to hit me but it is not going down without a fight. now in 2012 mubarak was sentenced to life and that was for his role in all doing the assassinate. and in the killing of nearly 900 anti-government
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protesters that ruling was later appealed at the time washington very much supported the withdrawal of mubarak despite the fact that they had been a close ally of him for the previous 30 years and what's interesting in 2011 in the year that he was overthrown the united states gave more than $1000000000.00 in military aid to egypt and mubarak was replaced by the muslim brotherhood which turned out to be one stable more extreme and although the united states initially had to support had it turned out in the long run not to do any good for egypt whatsoever we have heard from the current president abdullah to how sisi he said that mubarak was a military leader and a war hero and 3 days of mourning has been declared in the country. corresponding gosh looking back at those pictures it was a relatively long time ago the arab spring but it seems like yesterday doesn't it thank you for the update and tell us what your experience is there in egypt well
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it's not talked at all darwish political editor of the middle east magazine thanks for coming on what would you how would you evaluate mubarak's legacy here both inside egypt and of course internationally as well it seem to be a rather mixed bag towards the end it's a mixed bag the positive. with him several times and there was a good really good sense of humor and british pounds and his wife is welsh so people are so. well you know i well actually when i interviewed them i had my panama hat that you know i have. i would love to see it fall down. meaning it's yours. it is too big crater face i didn't tell our viewers before you carry on or do i didn't tell our viewers i should tell you i interviewed him personally you got to talk to him face to face tell us more about that interaction what it was like that he had that is that you know he was really relaxed. since of your mother works
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in georgetown i said to him who is big headed to a man to fit him he said that's a very vivid it would bum have you actually considered to. have cafes and bars of the 2nd career as well as well least one to mr president that is copyrighted you can't use it so anyway so he can't actually there's orks and the bit that he was quite relaxed about and that was an easy eve visit to london in 1988 he played a role with your sin of jordan and the british informed us in yasser arafat then that either of the p.l.o. or to drug violence that we could go on a stick of and that was quite a polluted sue the aust little. agreement as it was the asian hagin the parishioners out of 5 to shake hands with one of the and signed agreements in washington and another actually glorious moment when he got the out of the league
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on the 6th of august after saddam had been with the 9090 and massacre majority of the arabs to send the troops led by the egyptians and joined the coalition forces so the but he quit but actually the downside and i would disagree with. or lawyers he had been to fight islamic terrorists who would action it then he from afghanistan created by the cia to fight the soviet there and so on he also let society be modernized and the other nazi and allowed his nomic evangelists on t.v. and passed through islamist laws he tried to appear to make us to be a more islamic then there's the mess he's actually fighting and that actually led to islamisation of the egyptian society making who kind of daraa in afghanistan and that was the way for the muslim brotherhood to come so on one hand actually that them back 5 and you would actually agree with. on the one his fall from power came
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during the arab spring do you think it was too late should it happen before. well i think it's actually was duly because you have he's he's actually. in agreement with the people or response the people in the. uprising. that what we've got what i actually called the 1st republic in egypt which is itself is illegal because they literally who were not given to was illegal to all secular opposition and the graphical bridge were suppressed and as as i said in the last 20 years of his rule islamisation of society gave the way for the islamic brotherhood which was actually backed by the americans by the way to come to power so it was too late by then again i'm an old school historian and it's the number of them that will you will leave it there one day i'm a show sure a historic palomar sort of see it
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a lot of interesting people in this day adult political editor of middle east magazine love to see you have a nice day thanks coming on back to the world. now sports stories big name britain's 4 time olympic champion a top insurance what a mo farah is facing fresh media scrutiny over claims he repeatedly lied to us doping officials about his alleged use of a controversial supplement our sports editor lecturer jeff schemes got more. well it actually dates back 220152014 when the 1st allegations came out against alberto salazar who was the coach of the oregon project and coach of more fat it was well now he has been banned for the last 4 months since october 29th full 4 years from any sports activity because of allegations he violated the world anti-doping agency doping protocol now in this fresh documentary by the b.b.c. panorama they actually expose the methods that salazar used sometimes even testing the new substances on athletes without their consent without taking into account
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that was possible health risks or things like that but the more interesting one is obviously his relationship with the u.k. and particular more fire and now salazar obviously was the coach of. reportedly he administered el carotene which is a substance well in small doses it is considered legal many athletes use it even my wife uses it in training and it's mean that it's just helping recovery for muscles and heart but things like that but there are certain those us where it's considered illegal and you know it's considered as doping so the allegation is that. basically administered this to more with the consent of the u.k. athletics authorities and this is actually the murkiest story the marcus part of the story because. several people involved in the you get led to barry fudge the head of long distance running at you get latics flew to switzerland to obtain al carotene he did not report this trip whatsoever according to the documentary then another person in the u.k. athletics dr chakravarty administered the doors to more fire but also did not
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report this even though it stipulated by the rules that any medication to the athlete should be reported and the most bizarre story the most bizarre part of the story came later when the u.s. anti-doping agency investigators came to london to question more about this obviously 4 time olympic champion he was already the olympic champion at the time they questioned him and he staunchly denied administering any al kerosene before changing his mind let's listen to that. taking an injection. i just wanted to come clean sorry go and i did take it at the time and i thought i didn't usual comes back for me but at the time i didn't remember so he didn't remember he spoke to barry told him to go back and change his account which obviously has sparked a lot of controversy and criticism on top of that both of these men very fudge and chakravarty they were testifying in front of the british parliament and they said you know we've we vetoed the use of it was absolutely fine but later the b.b.c.
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documentary also revealed e-mails where they were actually concerned with using this substance with you know the prize athlete which you know begs the question with many m.p.'s why there was such a huge such a need for such secrecy among among that lets listen this must have been an unusual occurrence that this very specific medicine was required sourced a great difficulty given against the initial advice of the don't know what he said he records of it and therefore decides to keep quiet about it it's worth mentioning here that more himself has denied all the allegations of doping he has never really tested positive for doping and he is going to the olympics this summer to represent great britain again but. this confusion. of their to say better than well there is a statement in the wake of this new documentary from nicole steps that the head of the u. cad and i will be agency in england who said that they are ready to cooperate they actually discussed described the us and i'd open agencies investigation as robust funnily enough this comes just
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a month after this very same person he said that the probes which the they keep of more will not be handed over to the u.s. authorities for further investigation their original doping probes of north which obviously created a lot of controversy as to what else do they have to hide if they're trying to be transparent the u.k. athletics also respond and then said you know the more is is a prize athlete and he has nothing to do with doping and all things like that but you know we are just a few months away from the olympics and this publication of a documentary creates a lot of. consultancy in england still whether the prize that should go to a lympics again. right coming up after the break police in northern ireland have apologized after flyers were circulated linking alcohol consumption with great lot of criticism over the war the police have to say will tell you what.
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remain in the shallows. game place in northern ireland have apologised after leaflets linking alcohol consumption to rape were wrongly circulated in belfast the instant triggered 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 have drunken outlined ways individuals can protect themselves while the police service says those leaflets have been discontinued in fact for a number of years another investigating why they were distributed in the 1st place it also stressed rape victims are never at fault but that 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
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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 deal the police can you please get some don't be a massive stop attacking women leaflets to distribute please how can you prevent a crime you routinely fail to understand with this victim blaming nonsense. we discussed the fallout from the controversial flyer with former british police officer peter kirk and also with rights activists poland. always the same and the same thing happening again and again we are in 2020 and still with the this is the blaming the victim of rape but please don't blame him 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 the if you know in this leaflet why you should connect this to rape the shore that's the bad
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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 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 a know of violence there is a part of violence you knew know that and whether or not you he's alert the police intervene in their efforts or not helped by exaggerated and inaccurate claims by
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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 particular culture so 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 lying there is no grounds for expect a claim in person i will service in all of northern ireland the lying when they say these were old leaflets but somehow through some mistake which will undoubtedly turn a century of administrative error. it is why why you what grounds of you've got to say in the police service of northern ireland the lawyering 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 watch your
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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 to 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. fallen under fire from jewish groups over a new series on his video streaming platform the show is called hunters which the ocean it's 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 the death camp which the museum says is a current of people suffering the drama and centers on the vigilante nazi hunters of the 1970 s. a truck down hundreds of escaped war criminals who fled to the united states. you
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know if. people like girls been big. exterminate. broken. the show's creator is the grandson of a holocaust survivor he defended the chassis we're talking about saying it was deliberately done to counteract the white washing or some of the worst atrocities committed by a man i was as been called before for allowing ethically dubious items linked to the holocaust to be sold on its website before including t. shirts for the text of a nazi executing a jewish person and i think christmas decorations both those products were removed but other questionable items still are available history central editor and newsweek columnist marc sheldon believes amazon does have to take more social responsibility here. i think that amazon's series may have gone a little bit beyond where i would have been comfortable going as an historian we
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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 is a difficult clients but a company this big it has to take a social responsibility and i think it has to be careful if you're a 1000000 seller is now an amazon now can you can they pull lease all 1000000 sellers yes they could but 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 for making sure that they don't allow things on their platform that are problematic visa via the holocaust naziism and other areas as well obviously other hateful areas. and you know that's just a snapshot of all the many stories we're covering today so much more of various social media dot com if you get a minute to check it out i'm kevin i went well for me just over half an hour between now and then watching the whole more about your new song is ongoing hearing we're talking about washington and india is all going traits but the u.s. media's approach to the harsh i would say. it's coming about.
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the world is driven by. thinks. we dare to ask. become a battleground in the u.s. government people are demanding. from my yankee is right now my focus because it's
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a very dangerous. power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is for power with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle. readings and sell you terry. this week has definitely started off in the world of
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law and order hawk watchers with the completion of one media frenzy 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 giuliana son's 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
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hash take me to movement meanwhile ladies and gentlemen across the atlantic.

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