4 employees from russia but new police agency in turkey have been released they were detained earlier in the day after take after being taken in for questioning. greek police clash with migrants the turkish border after ankara gives the green light to asylum seekers hoping to reach the unit in apparent bid to pressure nato into backing its offensive in series italy and it's been a long week in his supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case not complete during the hearings the wiki leaks founder was kept in a glass case 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. oh they're the latest news and look back at the last 7 days to you watching weekly here on r.t. international. 4 employees of russia's news agency in turkey have been released after questioning by police the editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday sputniks says that turkish police also searched his office although no reason was given as to why earlier r.t. shared more details with my colleague neil harvey. has been grabbing headlines in recent days who have seen this picture of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from now that's been slightly overlooked 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 is 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 their own 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 stories reporting that they said phrases like turkey for the russian spies and they were being thrown around. and but why would that be such a still a t 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 i'm qwest come out of 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 i condemned last night's threats an attempted attack against 3 turkey based 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 and 939 disputed referendum in the now tucker province of a tie is discussed with some suggestion that potentially it was waived 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 sport 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 turkey's not a model country regarding the treatment of its own journalists thousands have been thrown in jail. there are 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 the reason convention regarding the door to diplomats and most countries respect. and borders and better goes but for journalists. not so clear and reporters are usually working democracy host governments and if the media cannot operate just because their country of origin is no.

friction with the other country that's very worrisome and perhaps turkey has something to hide. the heart of any migration crisis because it has opened its borders with 50000 people have crossed into europe in a single day large numbers of migrants and refugees were seen throwing rocks at the border patrol's before they cut through the barbed wire and. the turkish greek border and tore up an agreement with brussels under which it took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid on the other side greek police greeted the newcomers with take guess. what. when this all follows a flare up in tensions in syria's last remaining terrorist stronghold the province

to threaten to launch a full scale military operation there after dozens of its troops killed in a syrian airstrike that was targeting just how this one critical is concerned about a fresh influx of refugees fleeing instability from that region the hostilities have all but ruined turkey's deescalation agreement with russia. it's more 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 or that they were there. the syrian army has every right to do to regular violations of this. fire from inside the it lib zone to neutralize terrorists we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling requirements written in the un resolution and a cry for help and car are called an emergency meeting with nato they made 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 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 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 borders 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 migraines thrust 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 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 which must think we're strengthening forces online to 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 plunged 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 2 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. wants for political reasons because the russians and the syrians didn't want to leave this region do it by to open the presence is not legitimate it's not sanctioned by any un resolution and it wants that. invasion or occupation by. syrian territory now it is being reported that turkey has shot down 2 syrian air force planes in italy province the aircraft are said to have been carrying out an

account a terror mission when they were brought down by turkish jets the pilots they reportedly escaped. to safety. so the 1st phase of judaism's us extradition case wraps up this week the decision on whether he will be handed over or not but we reached him a when further hearings are. the prosecution did argue that a stanch knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u.s. military files without redacting names and of the sensitive information washington claims that claims that following those leaks in 2010 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and also iran that we can xander is also accused of encouraging the whistleblower and army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack the pentagon's computer network where songes defense team have sought so you can to these allegations buttressing their case with previously undisclosed information they

claim the publisher actually warned then secretary of state hillary clinton about the leaks so was to ensure the safety of the individuals whose names did appear in the documents they've also stressed to that assigns activities are protected by the principles of press freedom and his lawyers have strongly rejected the assertion that he courage manning to hack the pentagon furthermore they say extradition would undermine necklines health will join the hearing a sans was held in a glass cage he was also prevented from talking to his lawyers we heard from one of them. 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 and 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. that week she didn't sound to support us have been protesting outside the court claiming the case is a test of fundamental press freedoms and calling on london and washington not to shoot the messenger. and to go the admitted under. chose the many straws that is nobody 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 20102011 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 why we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america you know you say what winds everybody here today they hear because they don't believe. stream narrative we spoke to politician broadcaster and former british and page george galloway about concerns surrounding the freedom of the press. songes 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 the evidence which checks out as being true of high crimes and misdemeanors by the us government or any government. including our

own and then report it to the public. there would have to be either foolhardy or extremely. because if they did so they're on a very high risk of ending up in a bullet proof box in woolwich crown for facing extradition the rest of your life in prison in the united states trust me but want to have a chilling effect on free journalism in the world it will have a killing effect still to come on the wait times in northeastern france he's that belgian dumping tons of rubbish across the border but have a report from there. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an

arms race. spearing dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. you know we talk a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency 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 a 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.

and i would get my residence northeast and france are crying foul over fly tipping they're accusing them. of illegally dumping tons of trash across the border. reports. 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 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. there fro 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 tons 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 calls 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 term. and that if there is an invoice is it and. there you know it says. so of s.

. when the company was contacted it didn't need 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 dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in the local fisherman's association is also concerned. on 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 isn't acceptable and people are doing this and regulate the mayor's office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means no and if you know so 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've been 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. sons now although there are no figures yet available for $29000.00 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground for other people's waste they want more regulation and are calling on the e.u. to step in to solve a problem that some believe europe's open borders are helping to facilitate charlotte do you can ski for r.t. in mosul. i also this week germany lifted the ban on the commercial

sale of euthanasia but critics fear the right to die be exploited for profit peter oliver reports. 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 college shuras 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 for the deaf 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 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. being their lives rather than promoting assisted suicide newton a.z.'s 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 aware that this is right for germany it's not a commercial thing dying it it's something that needs care security he needs. yes professionalism i think there are certain things that you cannot put the seal 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 said to joy in the concerns are about that what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be set to become a business opportunity peter all of. that for years after they lost the white house to donald trump the democrats are still haunted by the specter of russian collusion although this time they are now pointing the finger at one of their own and he sounded on quarter takes a closer. 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 move through you know for help for one or 2 new one somebody who didn't think could be from at least agent 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 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 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 988 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 and 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 rule in politics pick your opponent and putin and trump are picking their opponent to happiest person right now it's about one in moscow time this thing is going very well for gladly approach i 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. international would be back a little stories from the weekly about how many. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business. i'll see that.

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