the supreme. greek police clash with migrants of the border with turkey after ankara gives the green light to asylum seekers hoping to reach the european union in the apparent bid to pressure nato into supporting its offensive in syria's. along with julian assange his supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete during the hearings are signs was kept in a glass cage and denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyer we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. and paid to die germany's constitutional court

repeals a 5 year old ban on assisted suicide service is sparking fears of an exploitative trade in. good afternoon welcome you're watching the weekly here on out. there are fears of a new migration crisis with almost $50000.00 people crossing into europe in just a day that's after turkey opened its e.u. borders and terrific tiddly tore up an agreement with brussels under which it took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid and the other side of the border police created the new comer's with tear gas. but it.

well so far there's a flare up in tensions in syria's last remaining terrorist stronghold province turkey threatened to launch a full scale military operation that dozens of its troops were killed in a syrian airstrike that was targeting jihadists and chris were it did it wouldn't handle a potential influx of refugees fleeing the hostilities of all but ruined turkey's deescalation agreement with russia if enough shouldn't picks up the story. it may be syria's last remaining terrorist stronghold but seems to be killing the last remaining hope for peace or even a dialogue there. turkey which once committed to working with russia to clear terrorists from the area is making a u. turn yesterday i asked what is your goal if you want to set up

a base you can set up a base draw your troops back from where we are leave us face to face with the regime the comments came after 33 turkish soldiers were reportedly killed in a syrian airstrike on the lip according to the russian military the troops died while operating alongside terrorists and turkey failed to inform us that they were there. the syrian army has every right to due to regular violations of the cease fire from inside the loop zone to neutralize terrorists so we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling requirements written in the un resolution and a cry for help and car a cold and emergency meeting with nato speculation that alliance could be dragged into war nothing was offered more than words of support i don't think nato forces will enter syria in support of those who've gone the problem for turkey is the nato alliance principle his honor. home long as an attack on all but the turks might be

risking trying to save it in attack by one nato states brings in all the others to support it and i think it's also reluctant to see nature come into direct confrontation with russia so there's quite a lot of powerful voices in nato who support the turks desire to see the syrian army's offensive stopped but i'm not sure they want to go beyond words and perhaps symbolic gestures so it seems ever gone deployed another tactic trying to force europe's hand. what we did is we opened up orders because you promised us assistance but you did nothing and we would not close those doors because the e.u. must keep its word just hours later crowds of migrants rushed to the frontier buy food by bus by train even risking their lives at sea.

and not all of them off from syria i'm from afghanistan are going to greece for a better life the turkish government did right by opening the borders i have been in turkey since i was 3 i'm originally from afghanistan i want to go to greece because i want to move to europe living conditions are better though. but there wasn't exactly the warmest of welcomes on offer on the other side of the border greens even used tear gas in a bid to make the new comers abandoned their dreams of a better life the damage must think we're strengthening forces on landed at sea additional police and army forces are being transferred the government is determined to do whatever is necessary to save guard our borders so a new wave of the refugee crisis in europe relations with russia again plunge into new lows nato lives in its patience while ably and even more turbulence than ever before in just a matter of weeks elegans managed to undo the progress of the last few years taken

the world in a direction that's the exact opposite of the peace the turkish president still promises to restore it's a serious escalation from the. turks who chose to intervene militarily directly because they were doing so by proxy by training organized army. terrorist groups fighting the syrian government. force for political reasons because the russians and the syrians didn't want to leave the region to avoid a confrontation the presence is not legitimate it's not sanctioned by any un resolution and it was considered. invasion or occupation by foreign power or syrian territory. the 1st phase of julian assange as u.s. extradition case wrapped up this week the decision on whether the journalist will

be handed over to the united states or not will be reached in may when further hearings are to be held. well skew should argue that the science knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published tropes of classified u.s. military files without redacting names and other sensitive information washington claims that following those leaks in 20 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and iran because he's found also accused of encouraging the will supplier and army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack the pentagon's computer network and our scientists defense team of sort however to counter those allegations but to sing their case with previously undisclosed information they claim the publisher actually warned then sect of state hillary clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of individuals whose names appeared in the documents they've also stressed the son's activities are protected by the principles of press freedom its lawyers have also strongly rejected the assertion that he encouraged manning to hack the pentagon for the war they say extradition would undermine their client's

health during the hearing assigns was held in a glass cage was also prevented from speaking to his lawyers we heard from one of them. well look i'm. a songe was in a grave condition before court but during the extradition proceedings it got even worse he was being held in a see through room without any access to his lawyers while he was being delivered to this room he was handcuffed 11 times he underwent a full body search twice and went through 5 different rooms before he finally entered the court moreover a songe couldn't take part in the court process he was deprived of any kind of interaction with his lawyers but he tried to reach out to be by passing a piece of paper through a gap in the glass box he was being held in and he was told off by the guard because of that i mean this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. of travel legion innocence or supporters of him

protesting outside the course in london claiming that the case is a test of fundamental journalistic freedoms and calling on the u.s. government's not to shoot the messenger skitter looks at how the wiki leaks founder has found himself closer than ever to extradition. hero or enemy number one you decide either way today the song has become a name and a face recognised 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 and it's not a crime it's in the public interest this is what i'm saying america is not democracy or told it's a total sham till his son is engaged in terrorism issue are treated as an enemy combatant. 6 with the leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service you know you say what worries everybody here today

because they don't believe. stream narrative the 48 year old australian put a target on his back when he leaked a truth of classified. u.s. documents lang 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 yeah is the full suddenly and unceremoniously being dragged out by british police. are. 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 or violations seldom need to prison sentences they're generally subject only to fines. 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 betrayed by acquittal feeling let down by the legal system a saw and now claimed his fundamental human rights were under attack he was put in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day the un and rights groups were in disbelief and some feared for more than just his freedom we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr a staunch could die in prison the medical situation is there by urgent there is no time to lose against this backdrop is it surprising that suspicion swallowing around the extradition trial especially given the u.s. u.k.

treaty clearly states no citizen can be extradited the political purposes which many tame at the says 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 as a constitutional sovereign her majesty acts on the advice of him ministers and remain strictly nonpolitical at all times this is therefore not a matter in which the queen would intervene if the u.k. kowtows to its allies request a sound might be dealt not just a life sentence without parole but even the death penalty if washington to side step out on thought the charges in the future but if it finds a willing jury which apparently won't be a problem a songe will receive a trial by jury in alexandria virginia the notorious 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 then a case like that that is a prearranged affair a show trial is to be used to make an example of june in a songe the point is to intimidate of the journalists global outcry human rights the law the right to a fat trial turns out there all week adversaries in the face of a government who will fight tooth and nail to keep a lid on its dirty secrets. julian assange is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange sees sitting in the courtroom this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will volunteer to be the next julian our son who will receive evidence which checks out as being true of

high crimes and misdemeanors by the us government or any government for that matter including our own and then report it to the public. the world that they would have to be either foolhardy or extremely brave because if they did so they're on a very high risk of ending up in a bulletproof box in which ground for facing extradition and the rest of your life in prison in the united states trust me that won't have a chilling effect on free journalism in the world it will have a killing effect. towns in northeastern france accused belgian neighbors of illegally dumping rubbish across the border we break down the story after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know we talk a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what mexico. usually what makes a currency is scarcity for example gold is a currency it's money because it's scarce that's the primary reason people use it as money keynesian economics or socialism is usually unworkable because the people who are organizing it think that well you can just print all the money you need you need a program print more money there's socialism for banks on wall street as was pointed out recently one of the big presidential debates you know bank gets in trouble just

print more money well what's the ultimate scarce commodity what is the ultimate scarce commodity think about it what is the ultimate scarce commodity. welcome back germany has lifted the ban on the commercial sale of euthanasia but critics will but the right to die will now be exploited for profit. all of it takes a look. almost 5 years after it was banned the highest court in germany has ruled that blocking assisted suicide is unconstitutional and making its ruling on wednesday the constitutional court in culture is said everyone has a right to live and a right to die article 217 of the german criminal code outlawed euthanasia as well as the advertising of the services what this ruling from the constitutional court means is that that's being overturned and not only could companies offer euthanasia

but that advertising that they could also stop being seeing the thinking behind wednesday's court ruling is that this will allow those in extreme paying and suffering from terminal illnesses to end their lives on their terms however senior voices within palliative care are warning that this could perhaps only to the normalization and indeed the commodification 'd of suicide in society now the facilitation of suicide for the sick and tired of life is turning into a normal service anyone who allows you to nature will sooner or later make it compulsory to die especially in this society is economize designers knowledge of experience across all other countries shows that supply creates demand immediately following the ruling politicians are asking what situations this will be allowed in also what the commercial implications will be for companies wanting to get involved

in the euthanasia business i want clear rules about when medical assistance in particular is allowed and when commercial offerings are excluded it is perfectly normal for people who have a terminal diagnosis to fail suicide in fact some of the studies show that i've 80 percent go through a period of depression with some sort of sidle thoughts and so what we should be doing is trying to find ways to assist those people in getting through that period and actually. living their lives rather than promoting assisted suicide newton asier services so we would be extremely worried about any commercialization all round of the process or indeed promotion that would lead to many fine reports people feeling that their lives were not worth living and actually ending them prematurely highest people here in berlin what their thoughts are on the ruling or whether this is right for germany it's not a commercial thing dying it it's something that needs care security see it needs.

yes professionalism i think there are certain things that you cannot put to sale to people like it's not a business you before yes i know want to commit suicide but i'm suffering i want to end my life you cannot do that to pay for it seems to me there was very bad incentives there if for example that advertising was actually targets people who were already having a hard time it could lead to people considering suicide more strongly i don't disagree with their physician assisted suicide just because like there are certain aspects that are beneficial for it but in terms of the advertising i could go either way like a really it depends on who is in control of that promoting this kind of fings for me is that a progress currently within a year of belgium the netherlands looks a book and switzerland all allow assisted dying but with germany set to joy in the concerns are about what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be set to

become a business opportunity peter all of our. presidents in northeastern france are crying foul of the fly tipping their neighbors in belgium of illegally dumping trash across the border has the story. this may look like part of a landfill site but it's not all of this waste has been dumped here illegally we're just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with what you can see mountains and to mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby red it's a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover of darkness city. at 1st we thought it was regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. they're throwing everything away.

yes but here we see it's far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste it's enormous as far as the pollution we don't know what's inside it could be tonnes of who knows what type of products chemicals. we don't know we see cleaning products plastics but more could be hidden it didn't take long before locals track down where the waste was coming from what if we did i was looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place we searched and found out it was from on terms. and that if here's an invoice is it and. i'm very near it says center of it so there. when the company was contacted it denied any knowledge of illegal waste dumping but the

local resident jessica told me that since that statement the fly tipping has continued it's been described as a dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in redone the local. association is also concerned. in the water source or close to this pollution so there could be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this on it's an acceptable people are doing this and regulate the mayor's office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means no need of yourself on a financial level for us this is impossible to solve we have a small community of $1000.00 people it would cost the equivalent of the whole annual budget to get rid of this. a criminal investigation into this

problem with cross border dumping has we know you print and customs agents have stepped up their patrols now in 2017 they reported 7 metric tons of waste like this was illegally trafficked into france in 2018 that shot up to 130000000 metric tons now although there are no figures yet available for 29000 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground for of the people's waste they want more regulation and a calling on the e.u. to step in to solve a problem that some believe europe's open borders are helping to facilitate charlotte didn't ski for r.t. in mosul. 4 years after they lost the white house to trump the democrats are still haunted by the specter of russian collusion on another pointing the finger at one of their own bernie sanders and he's done of course

a look to whether he and the russians have been rumbled. good news comrades our agent bernie sanders is doing better than we expected in the primaries are planned to have 2 agents fight over the presidency operation hammer and sickle is a go but we have one problem some in the democratic party establishment are becoming savvy to our strategy vladimir putin thinks donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping bernie sanders get elected so he'll lose to trump it doesn't help that just last week western media published information about our top secret operation exposing the connection between agents trump and sanders with our center in moscow as you learned tonight and today yesterday the day before is going to have we're going to war help coming from learn to be a prudent world through. war help or wanted to do want somebody who didn't think

can be from at least age and trump was able to follow orders i admit nothing deny everything and make counter accusations it was highly exaggerated. and frankly i think it's disgraceful and i think it was a leak from the intelligence committee our house version and i think that they leaked it i think probably shipley good agent sanders on the other hand really dropped the ball he panicked and that is the ugliest thing they're doing is they are trying to cause chaos the trying to cause hatred in america it's an ugly business and all of us have got to say sorry you're not going to do this in the selection and again is present in the united states. you will not interfere in our elections and the order was to deny sanders deny but he broke under pressure blowing the cover of our moscow back to bernie bros i design these people they are not part of our movement all of us remember 2016 and what we meant what we remember is efforts by russians and others to try to interfere in our election and divide us

up. i'm not saying that's happening but it would not shock me the center has good reason to believe agent sanders has been compromised we're losing control over his actions and he's praising our strategic allies too openly you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program it's not a bad think it's only a matter of time before they discover the interview agent sanders gave to profit i mean r t what effect do you think you can have on your voters it was so close here in iowa well i just hope that people take a hard look at the real issues impacting their lives to make matters worse we may have a mole in our midst how else could the footage have been leaked remember when the comrades recruited sanders at the new year's party of 1980 bernie spent his honeymoon in there in soviet russia i mean i think if we're going to go back and forth about who's more in the tank with russia it's a really hard one between barney and rob we have made too many tactical blunders as

it is and western pundits are already undergoing a campaign to discredit our agent obviously we know the russians are continuing to try to choose our next president like they chose our last president the russians don't want me to be the nominee who spent a lot of money on bots on facebook and they've been taken down say biden is a bad guy the no one biden rule in politics pick your opponent and putin and trump are picking their opponent the happiest person right now it's about one in 15 moscow time this thing is going very well for blood to be a promise you. probably stay up watching us right now how you doing our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents. but the sun is opponent in the race for the democratic nomination joe biden has won the primary in south carolina to scalp attracting votes they might not be the biggest problem.

my name's joe biden number governor credit candidate for the united states senate look real real likers the help out is not fulfilled by give me a look though ok. one things i promised of. is getting past getting moved to getting control the powers climate accord i'm a guy that came back after media but don't shout pretty. my son one of. my deceased son was attorney general you know stacey before that he was a federal prosecutor one of the largest offices in the country in philadelphia. and. it is important that iowa nevada misspoken.

be staying with me for updates at the top of their. nuclear become a battleground in the us government people of demanding the shutdown of the local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous medicare 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 who are. or is it more in the idea of a traditional just. our lie with the people this demonstrates that struggle.

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