4 employees from russia sputnik news agency in turkey have been released they were detained earlier in the day and taken him to question the. greek police clash with migrants at the turkish border after ankara gives the green light to. the e.u. in an apparent bid to pressure nato into supporting its offensive in. the julian assange and his supporters for the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete the wiki leaks founder and the glass cage and denied opportunity to interact with lawyers 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. as events of towns in northeastern france accused. of illegally dumping garbage across the border. good evening and welcome this is the weekly here marty international. 4 employees of russia sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday says that turkish police also searched the office for the no reason was given earlier our correspondent taylor brought me the latest details. has been grabbing headlines in recent days you've seen this picture of migrants flooding across its border but

this is another story from there that's been slightly over looked so in 3 journalists who work for russia sputnik news agency in ankara have been released now off to several hours in police custody and that's because off to questioning no reason was found to hold them. i originally they actually went to the peace of their own free will because they wanted to file a complaint about an alleged attack that they'd been victims to in that own homes on saturday and after that nothing was heard from them until now of course which understandably sparked a concern from moscow. on the turkish authorities to intervene provide safety to the russian media and ensure that all circumstances are clarified it's also said that the editor in chief of the istanbul bureau was also detained by police and what some are calling a flagrant violation of media freedom it's now being confirmed that he too has been released and that happened also thought to have the offices of the bureau even

some reports saying that they made copies of hard drives from the computers that you mentioned some of the attacks in the homes of the euro zone's sinister what details do we know about those while it's alleged that they were not spontaneous attacks but rather a coordinated fact and that they were instigated by turkish nationalists there are some reports saying that these nationalists gathered outside the private homes of these 3 journalists some of them even allegedly broke into them and they were chanting nationalist slogans and they also according to some stories versions they allegedly accused these employees of betraying that country because they walk for the russian news outlet there are stories reporting that they said phrases like turkey for the russian spies and they were being thrown around. around but why would that be such a still at sea towards these 3 while unfortunate some in turkey are blaming russia

for the deaths of dozens of tucker soldiers and in a syrian asteroid recently that's despite the fact that i'm quite as come out very clearly said that we know that the russian air force was in no way involved it's also worth mentioning let's quickly listen to another motive that was suggested by condemning last night's threats an attempt to deter against 3 turkey the sputnik journalists harms and encourage concerned that they were reportedly detained today . as you through g.'s to ensure the safety of foreign correspondents now the article in question is one in which at 19 thought you 9 disputed referendum in the now province of a tie is discussed with some suggestion that potentially it was rigged by the tug's but i do want to say that that has not been confirmed or stop as a motive for these attacks but it is briefly was just saying that this is unfortunate not the 1st time the sport has faced problems in turkey back in 2016

for example the news website was temporarily blocked by the country's telecom regulator as this latest turn of events would of course be keeping an eye on it and see how it all plays out. to this broadcast the new continents we live on the line now welcome neal and i've been following this the story of the last 24 hours or so and what did you make of it when you 1st heard of it. when i was pretty shocked it was quite a sinister development to read last night that journalists working for support nic had alleged that their homes had been broken into by what appeared to be a coordinated attack with people shouting anti russian extreme turkish nationalist slogans that is quite sinister obviously and then for them that for the journalism selves to be detained when they go to the police to report what happened and themselves to be to be detained for several hours well just imagine if this had happened in russia let's just reverse this let's just say let's suppose if

journalists working for the foot turkish news agencies or turkish news organizations in moscow had had their homes broken into with russians shouting extreme nationalist anti turkish pro russian slogans and then they'd gone in response to the russian police and the russian police detained them can you imagine the media coverage this would have got in the west it would have been all over the papers front page news would be in the b.b.c. headlines how outrageous the russian authorities are no foreign journalists are safe in russia yet but it happened against russian news a journalist working for a russian news agency in turkey so tumbleweed silence only media that's reporting it seems to me to be r.t. . the dualists union of turkey they have slammed those detentions how do you assess the situation at the moment in turkey for. journalists are there more arrests happening than perhaps you've seen in previous is explain

a tough place for journalists neil for a number of years now that climate journalist critical of the president journalists critical of the ruling party have faced harassment or worse we know that it's not a great place to be an independent journalist and it's much worse now because what's happened in the last few days the rhetoric from the government particular mr erdogan himself has been i think inflammatory. very strong rhetoric telling russia demanding russia gets out of the way in syria and so that's the climate that's the climate in which these journeys are operating and of course to be a journalist working for a russian news agency in turkey at the moment is particularly i think. a very stressful time because of the way things are being the way this whole syrian conflict is being betrayed a turkey and and particularly i think what's coming out from the government ministers and mr oliver self is it is creating this climate which is not very conducive i don't think that journalists go about their business and do what they

should be doing and you talked about that the climate that there was created do you think that's connected to the reports of people standing outside the homes of the journalist shouting nastily slogans do you think that perhaps a sense of nationalism is being whipped up in turkey. undoubtably you know what i put a tweet out about 10 days ago just it's an i thought it was quite a mild tweet saying that when i was hearing her go on and turkish policy is talking about it live the syrian army and the syrian authorities have got to got to give up it live and stop trying to reclaim it i just put a tweet out to say well hang on mr hurd i want to write 7 at this because the last time i looked it was in syria not in turkey a flak i got from what i would call hardcore turkish nationalists was incredible and that's the climate i think it's all being whipped up i think as it is syrian policy is in a total mess and i hope what he's trying to do is whip up nationalism. and i think that's that that we saw that last night if the reports are true about the break ins of the attempt to break into the journalists home it's

a very ugly climate now that taking the actually don't ration in turkey and i think it's all to do with the traveling of a certain strategy you know turkey had a good neighbor policy for many years near as you know that's that's changed now and now is in this in this situation where i think what he thinks is the best way to get out of it is to try to to try to encourage nationalism extreme nationalism in turkey and to target other countries who seem to be getting in the way of what turkey wants to do in syria they'll get our view on peace in time journalist broadcast the neil clark is my guest thanks neal. that is not the only issue that turkey is involved in at the moment the riff is of a new migration crisis with almost 50000 people crossing into europe in just a day after turkey opened its borders to the e.u. large numbers of migrants and refugees were seen throwing rocks at the border

patrol's before they cut their way through a barbed wire fence at the turkey greece border anchor effectively tore up agreement with brussels under which it looked eyes of millions of asylum seekers in return financial assistance on the other side the greek police greeted the new comers tear gas. but. this fall follows a flare up intentions in syria. story a terrorist stronghold province turkey threatened to launch a full scale military operation after dozens of its troops were killed in a syrian air strike that was targeting jihadist voiced concerns about a fresh influx of refugees fleeing instability in the region austerities ruin turkey's deescalation agreement with russia if a national 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 eclipse zone to neutralize terrorists we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling requirements written in the un resolution and a cry for help and correct called an emergency meeting with nato but i mean speculation the. 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 or the problem to turkey is the nato alliance principle is an attack on along 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 new to come into a 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 front here 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 there. but there wasn't exactly the warmest of welcomes on offer on the other side of the border greaves even used tear gas in

a bid to make the new comers abandoned their dreams of a better life which most were strengthening forces on land and at sea additional police and army forces are being transferred the government is determined to do whatever is necessary to safeguard our borders so a new wave of the refugee crisis in europe relations with russia again plunge into new lows nato lives in a spacious well maybe even more turbulence than ever before in just a matter of weeks as the guns manage 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 organizing mean. terrorist groups fighting the syrian government. 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. and we've been getting reports that turkey has shot down 2 syrian air force planes and in a province the aircraft were said to have been carrying out a counter terror mission when they were brought down by turkish jets the pilots reportedly checked in to safety. the 1st phase of julian assizes u.s. extradition case wrapped up this week the decision on whether he'll be handed over or not will be reached in may when further hearings are scheduled the prosecution argued assigns knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u.s.

military files without redacting names and other sensitive information or said to claims the following those leaks in 2010 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and around the wiki leaks founder also accused of encouraging the whistleblower an army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack the pentagon's computer network now a science defense team of sorts to counter those allegations buttressing their case with previously undisclosed information they claim the publisher actually warned the then sect of state hillary clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of the individual whose names appeared in those documents they also stressed the songes activities are protected by the principles of press freedom and his law is a strong rejected the assertion that he encouraged manning to hack the pentagon for the more they say extradition with undermined their client health during the hearing the sirens was held in a glass cage and also was prevented from speaking to his lawyers although we managed to hear from one of them. a songe was in

a grave condition before court but during the extradition proceedings that got even worse he was being held in a see through a 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. throughout the week julian assange the supporters have been protesting outside the court claiming the case is a test of fundamental press freedoms calling on london and washington not to shoot the messenger celebrity support has also been

a key feature of the. 7 7 pentagon the now admitted. in cho's remaining straw the body had been for 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 minutes 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. that is what we should be talking about you know courtroom in this country and in america you know you say what worries everybody here today they're here because they don't believe. stream narrative we spoke to politician broadcaster and former british m.p. george galloway about concerns surrounding freedom of the press. do then our sons is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange 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 there will be had there would have to be either foolhardy or extremely brave because if they did so they run a very high risk of ending up in a bulletproof box in woolwich 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. residents in northeastern france crying

foul over fly tipping they're accusing the neighbors in belgium of illegally dumping trash across the border so the devinsky 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 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 a regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. there for when everything away should. 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 look into 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 turn up. and that it if here's an invoice is it and. i'm very clear it says. so of s. well 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 low. fisherman's 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 like this 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 you know when you view 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 didn't 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 donald trump the democrats are still haunted by the specter of russian collusion only now they're pointing the finger at one of their own bernie sanders artist on quarter looks at whether 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 prudent. for health provider 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 a truth 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 the order was to deny sanders deny but he broke under pressure blowing the cover of our moscow back to bernie bros i disown 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 prov 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 1908 bernie spent his honeymoon in there in soviet russia i mean i think you are 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 blatter we have to promise you. probably stay up watching us right now how you doing we'll have our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents. a lot of things of thanks thing without international they'll be updates coming your way in the office.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by our own person and those great. thinks. we dare to ask.

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