simply an issue in our in the violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. or employees from russia sputnik news agency in turkey have been released they were detained earlier in the day and taken in for questioning. also to come the weekly greece police clash with migrants at the turkish border after ankara gives the green light to asylum seekers hoping to reach the new in the pound to pressure nato into backing its offensive in series italy and it's been a long week for his supporters with the 1st phase of his extradition to the u.s. case now complete during the hearings that wiki leaks founder was kept in a glass cage and denied the opportunity to interact with his 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. and residents of times in northeastern france accuse their belgian neighbors of illegally dumping garbage across the border. hello welcome the latest developments and look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to watch in the weekly here an r.t. international now for employees of russia's news agency and have been released after questioning the editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday sputnik says to police also. bull office although no reason was given as to why earlier. more details with my colleague. because he touches been grabbing headlines in. recent days have seen this picture

of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from there that's been slightly over looked so 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 for i originally they actually went to the peace of their own free will because they wanted to find 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 all of 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 he's also thought to have the offices of the bureau with

even some reports saying that they made copies of hard drives from the computers the. interest of the attacks in the homes of the euro zone's sinister what details do we know about those well it's alleged that they were not spontaneous attacks but rather a coordinated affair 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 some stories reporting that they said phrases like turkey for the russian spies they were being thrown around but why would that be such a stupid. towards these 3 while unfortunate some in tukey are blaming russia for

the deaths of dozens of tucker soldiers and in a syrian asked strike recently that's despite the fact that on quest come out a 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 in to another motive that was suggested i condemned last night's threats an attempted attack against 3 turkey sputnik journalists outside their homes in ankara also concerned that they were reportedly detained today over an. authority to ensure the safety of foreign correspondents now the article in question is one in which 19 thought you 9 disputed referendum in the now tucker province of the toy is discussed with some suggestion that potentially it was rigged by the tux but i do want to say that that has not been confirmed or stop just as a motive for these attacks but it is briefly was just saying that this is unfortunate not the 1st time that sputnik has faced problems in

a touch 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. ok well we can discuss this and i with a journalist or me or him he's in tel aviv get even to me plenty of speculation about perhaps why these employees were detained from sputnik what are your thoughts on this story. well obviously would be of concern to all journalists worldwide when. brothers. are being harassed in. their homes broken into. because the reason vienna convention regarding the door to diplomats and most countries respect. and borders. ambassadors but for

journalists. not so clear and reporters are usually working a democracy of there are a host governments and if the media cannot operate just because their country of origin is now. the other country that's very wary some and perhaps turkey has something to hide the journalist seen you know he slammed these detentions t.j. think that wanted to authorities its whole what sort of response would you expect from them. well turkey is not a model country regarding the treatment of its own journalists thousands have been thrown in jail. others dozens remain in exile because they know that they too will be imprisoned if they do go back so the fact that they also

do it to foreign media is not surprising but there is one aspect here sometimes journalists where for a state run media it could be a television network a news site this is the case in israel in the united states in russia obviously too and they should be accorded the professional courtesy that all other reporters receive unless there is some knowledge of a crime in which case they would not have immunity but other than that they should be treated with professional. respect and should not be harassed we do see the increasing tensions just recently between russia and the situation in syria is a coincidence. well obviously it does have an impact 3 and one goes back to work cold war days when there was

a teach for tat an american reporter would be detained in moscow in return for a soviet one being given the same treatment in washington happily we are. long ago have been over these times and there shouldn't be any such retaliation and it should seize. despicable treatment of journalists ok i'm in i still see tonight i was mirroring journalists that based on television thank you thank you. now. not only is she a turkey it's not the only turkeys involved in the raf is the new migration crisis to with almost 50000 people crossing into europe in a day after turkey opened its borders to the large numbers of migrants refugees were seen throwing rocks at the border patrol's before they cut through

a barbed wire fence at the turkish border and effectively tore up and agreeing with brussels under which he took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid on the other side creek police greeted the newcomers protégé gas. but it. was. this does all follow a flare up in tensions in syria's last remaining terrorist stronghold it lead province turkey threatened to launch a full scale military operation there after dozens of its troops were killed in the syrian airstrike that was targeting jihadists and then chris voiced concerns too about a fresh influx now of refugees fleeing instability from that region the hostilities of all but ruined turkey's deescalation agreement with russia written off as more of the story. it may be serious 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 great draw your troops back from where we leave us face to face with the regime the. ammons came after $33.00 turkish soldiers were reportedly killed in a syrian airstrike on the ad lib 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 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 but i mean speculation that elian's 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 is an attack on along as an attack on all but the turks might be risking trying to say able to attack by one nato states brings in all the others to support it and i think there's a lot of reluctance to see the need to 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 there. but there wasn't exactly the warmest of welcomes on all for 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 is the damage must succeed where strengthening forces on land it is see 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 side of the turks who chose to intervene militarily in directly because they were doing so by proxy by training organizing mean. terrorist groups fighting the syrian government. of course for political

reasons because the russians and the cities didn't want to leave this region lead to a direct confrontation. presence and it is not legitimate it's not sanctioned by any u.n. resolution and it will consider that. invasion order and occupation by foreign power or city and that it already. meanwhile it's been reported that he has shot down to syrian air force planes in a day province. said to have been carrying out to counter terror counter terror mission when they were brought down by to jets the pilots though reportedly checked it to say that the towns in northeastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of illegal dumping rubbish across the border we've got that story to come here on the weekly just after the break.

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welcome back now the 1st phase of julian assange as u.s. extradition case wrapped up this week the decision on whether he will be handed over or not we reached him a win further hearings are show jeweled the prosecution argued that a songe knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u.s. military files without redacting names and other sensitive information and washington claims that following those leaks in 2010 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and also around that wiki leaks founder is also accused to encouraging the whistleblower and army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack the

pentagon's computer network while sandra's defense team have sought however to counter those allegations buttressing their case with previously undisclosed information they claim that the publisher actually warned then secretary of state hillary clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of the individuals whose names have paid in the documents they've also stressed to the songes activities are protected by the principles of press freedom and his lawyers have strongly rejected the assertion that he encouraged manning to hack the pentagon furthermore they say that extradition would undermine their client's health now during the hearing was held in a class cage he was also prevented from talking to his lawyers we heard 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 seethrough room without any access to his lawyers so 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 jean sound you supporters have been protesting outside the courts claiming the case is a test the fundamental press freedoms and according to on london and washington not to shoot the messenger celebrity supporters will subpoena can see. him to go to 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 that's the nature 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 why is everybody here today they're here because they don't believe mainstream america respected politician broadcast and former british and pay to watch got away about concerns surrounding the freedom of the press julian assange is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange sitting in the. courtroom of 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 the 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 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 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. resins northeastern france a crying foul overflight a think they're accusing their neighbors in belgium of illegally dumping trash across the border she wanted to report. 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 all and everything away to 2 groups of us about it 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 tons of who knows what type of products chemicals. we don't know we see cleaning products

classics what more could be hidden but it didn't take long before locals track down where the waste was coming from much if we did the arms looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place and i don't know it was from on turn up. some of it if there is an invoice is it and why it i'm very curious isn't to have been some of s. right 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 can 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 and people are doing this regularly the mayor's office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means. on a financial level this is impossible to solve we have a small community of $100000.00 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 off 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. show that ski off. after they lost the white house to trump the democrats is still haunted by the specter of russian collusion although this time they a pointing the finger one that their own. don't cotton takes a close the. 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 come in from learn to be prudent move through. wanted to do want somebody who didn't think could be from at least agent trump was able to follow orders 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 to agent sanders on the other hand really

dropped the ball he panicked and that is the ugliest little it 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 bro. 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 or losing control over his actions and he's praising our strategic allies to 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 1908 bernie spent his honeymoon in there in soviet russia i mean i think you're going to go back and forth about who's more in the tank with russia it's a really hard line 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 they don't want biden rodent rule in politics pick your opponent and

putin and trump are picking their opponent to happiest person right now it's about one in 15 moscow time this thing is going very well for bladder we have to promise you they probably stay up watching us right now how you doing but i have our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents. you've been watching a week here not say yet what you see on the headlines at the top of. the world is driven by dream shaped by one person.

thinks. we dare to ask. for your rocky is now they live but should we have had a much better 17 years could we could have had a much more prosperous iraq a stable iraq yes as their. mistakes happen absolutely could americans have made things better by far they could've should've have made a better does not take away from the flag they have stood up to rummy dictator who was blood thirsty participated in the mud and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis are millions of them more of iran than the invasion of kuwait and salt.

welcome to front running 2020 with max kaiser and stacy herbert and a bevy of special guests right here in fabulous hipster brooklyn i'm feeling it so stacey this episode is all about student debts and the students of course are the millennium goals and generations e they like the candidates promising to get rid of all the student debts there's $1.00 trillion dollars in outstanding debt.