and. we support young specialist's work. that admits there is no proof at this point of criminal involvement in the case with moscow for its part dismissing the allegations as absurd. protests against police brutality in the u.s. show no signs of easing look at how on earth is helping bring huge profits to american gun manufacturers. and $22.00 french schools are already shut down again just a week into the academic year as the country suffers another coronavirus.

from moscow what's your to international with me. thanks for joining us this hour. our top level exchange of accusations that is raising the stakes over the sudden and so far unexplained illness of prominent russian opposition activist alexei navalny kremlin spokesman to be through. all allegations of state involvement in the case as unacceptable and absurd in their very nature or the german spokesman spin asked if they will scrap the north stream to gas pipeline project with russia as artie's peeta all of the reports. the german government press briefing the lunchtime press briefing wrapped up on monday putted with with questions about north stream 2 i think just about every other question made reference to the multi national infrastructure project the message coming out of the german government is that as it stands at the moment north stream 2 is an economic project and its own connected to the no valley case starts as it stands however that could change

depending on how things develop that's pretty much the same message we're getting coming out of moscow with dmitri peskov the kremlin spokesperson saying it was too soon to lump nord stream too in with the no vonnie case at the moment now moscow had been not very happy at all with berlin for what it said was dragging its feet when it came to sharing data and information on alexina valmy would now have confirmation from the german foreign minister that the process of getting that information that was requested over to russia has been greenlit and is on the way pursued does increase of we've already agreed to russia's request full eagle assistance with all the russian ambassador this when we had a conversation with him last week who told him that if there was a request for a legal assistance we would agree to says there was no reason not to agree to it. well that new seems to lead to a change of tone in moscow's approach is well certainly less confrontational

combative if you will from that dmitri prescott the kremlin spokesperson on monday certainly seems this the news this moscow's requests would be answered is helping matters to be released we have certainly noted the german farmers the statement and the glove that's in the nearest timeframe the information will be delivered and that there are no reasons for this information not to be delivered bearing in mind the high profile of this issue we are counting on receiving the information in the upcoming days we very much awaits it's too. well elsewhere prime minister the united kingdom boris johnson was very quick to point the finger of blame at russia for alexei navalny illness just last week it now seems that a more cautious approach has been taken by london foreign secretary dominic robb was rolled out in front of the cameras and he said it was too soon to proportion blame for what happened to mr novelli and let's be really clear about this we're not yet in a position to attribute any use of novacek it doesn't matter the state actor of

non-state actor is a violation of international law alexei navalny remains in hospital here in berlin doctors have said there's no acute risk to his life however they haven't ruled out a potentially long term illness. political analyst chris palmer it's all the sperling's closer economic ties with moscow make it cautious germany has always been a slightly different position i mean while wondering and washington usually usually with the charts in terms of sanctions germany of course is much more accurately tied into russia it's equal but energy would not just energy and nerves or is now. about getting into a confrontation because those economic economic ties and you know and cancelling this pipeline was actually quite a serious mood. is something. they desire so i think the germans have reasons to be much more cautious than know that we've

seen so i think generally you know normally i would expect london and washington to gether to be within the cheezy of these soon to be pulling back which seems to me to condone the narrative that we've been told is poison case. more than a 1000 people have gathered in rochester new york overnight demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man then arrest there but after video emerged showing police placing a split heard on daniel one of a surprise his hands on prince head another put his knee on prudes back meeting to suffocation the death was shot. in march will now be investigated by a grand jury in wa on saturday the city of portland oregon marked 100 consecutive days of black lives and other rallies triggered by the death of another black man george floyd. i q please.

please. 59 arrests have been made in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting so unless the author daniel is believes the unrest could continue into election day and beyond. but it's breaking down we're seeing our street fighting in our street fighting going on growing levels involving both the leftists and rightists. as a kind of a slow building civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no one knows what will happen with the election because american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well and up infighting endless lawsuits

and indeterminate no one knows. when one in the state of kentucky hundreds of protesters from rival groups of marched through lewisville. companies converged on the city demanding saturday's kentucky derby horse race be transformed still went ahead. denouncing police violence and demanding justice for the police killing of brianna tyler and lewisville pro policemen to show also marched through the city and were confronted by black lives activists. one american company seems to be cashing in on the arrests leading far as make a smith and wesson and jump 140 percent this year that's around $134000000.00 in extra sales i don't again believe the gun boom is symptomatic of the country's political stalemate both sides are arming i mean there are guns everywhere what if you go to one of these protests and in places like the midwest or the west you'll see guns on both sides and it's very dangerous and because people tend to use these

weapons and so but the but there's no force capable of stopping this fighting because i'm it seems to have taken a life of its own and it's just part of the whole political structure which is in an excel orating breakdown i mean america it's a it's a failed state and it's failing effort more rapidly and these these demonstrations these these the street fighting is a symptom of that. over the nation modern rest against the racial injustice lightly stretching into november's election day one side is warning only a biden victory can stop the violence democratic party think tanks anything other than a win for them and it will bring more chaos story still to come here not international . over to france where restrictions are returning after another surge of cases it's added another 7 regions through its red zone less

than $22.00 schools have been closed just a week off the reopening that's left parents frightened. to do with ski as the story. this is the 2nd week of school in france and already some of those schools have had to be closed down because of covert 19 within the institutional last week more than 12000000 peoples went back to the classrooms and that was with some parents and teachers expressing concern about the transmission rates of the virus because they have been really creeping up here in france last week several days there were more than 7000 cases wedged in a 24 hour period 22 schools have been shut in the last week but hundreds and hundreds of classes have also been closed down the education secretary here in france has been outlining when such a decision should be taken. out of the 12 establishments colleges and schools were closed the main line france considering there are 60000 establishment

in the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region we closed down that makes 22 in total function and function well there are now 70 new zones in france that have been declared the red zones this means that they are areas with a high active transmission rate of 19 it means $28.00 regions in total are considered rent in that the french area and this allows authorities to impose extra controls to try to cool the transmission of the virus one of the measures that authorities can take when they're in a red zone is to impose something such as the obligation to wear a face mask a public such as we have in paris which means every street you're in you have to wear a face mask but there is a backlash against such measures like that mask sentiment also being shown elsewhere across europe with protests over the weekend from places such as the u.k.

in spain to italy. if you send. you. flowers. meanwhile here in france there are some calls for people to wear face masks specifically from the riders of the tour de france which is making its way through the country at the moment its beg its fans who are coming out to the streets to wave them as they pass by to be responsible and to wear masks so it seems there is a huge divide still over the measures that are being used to try and curb 1000 whether that's wearing a mask whether that's a quarantine or whether that's imposing lockdowns local restrictions the methods

being used to remain highly contentious. 2 months before the u.s. presidential election even happened stomach radek party think tanks are already predicting the consequences if their opponent wins if they know that anything other than a job or and when that will lead to violence caleb open examines the claims. in november the us public will get to vote on who becomes president for the next 4 years and figures from the media and political establishment are now preparing the public for possible outcomes something called the transition integrity project created in 2019 is planning for things that could go wrong during the upcoming vote and subsequent transition of power they've been playing out war games and some rather interesting scenarios have been dreamed up with the exception of the big biden win scenario

each fire exercises reach the brink of catastrophe but massive disinform ation campaigns violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfit sinking along these lines hark fish an outfit funded by michael bloomberg does work for the democratic national committee as well as pro biden super pacs is planning for hypothetical situations that involve mail and voting confusion when every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day which will be some day after election day you will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that and the rush it lou played donald trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted hot fish predicts that such a situation could lead to donald trump refusing to step down and that's rather similar to the transition integrity project are you seeing

a pattern here well the new york times certainly has if trump claims a victory that is not rightly haze a few marches in the streets will not be an adequate response there may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action as in hong kong and bella ruse to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it trump is equated with civil unrest so naturally only biden's. victory can save the country from chaos don't buy it and let's not forget another factor being thrown ian allegations of russian interference the allegation is that russia favors trump and denigrates biden so russia must be preemptively punished before the elections even happen to prevent meddling with us to draw upon the conclusion of the intelligence community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing election interference including any actives within the

government of the russian federation and the russian act is determined to be directly responsible and those acting on their behalf providing material financial support for their efforts russia is also accused of spreading rumors about mail in vote in order to undermine the us elections but it's not really russia that's doing that unless of course the kremlin controls american t.v. networks there are cases from just this last spring or where ballots have gone missing and turned up after the election so what happens when the post office is doing its absolute best as are humans fraud violence mail and voting already happening. not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already preparing for how to handle the results will be that they'll will be the hero and how they will tell you to react they're already setting a climate where there's going to be massive speculation about rigid in a sea of this election they said the exact same thing in 2016 that shrum well it is not going to do you could see the election if you loses and then what happened oh

the democrats didn't concede hillary didn't can see we dealt with russia gate bridge 2 years if the democrats lose if joe biden loses in fact i think any supporter be smart to not be in there they learn a liberal city it's not be there on election night they are going to burn the place to the ground they know they're going to lose and so they're already setting up the game to further damage his presidency and to damage his 2nd term should he win so it'll be another scandal it'll be another local i'm absolutely conspiracy theory like russia gate maybe russia gay part 2 who knows. said ahead in the program they had little waiting to hear on tune in a song his extradition to the u.s. thoughts in london imminently so after a decade of legal wrangling our correspondent that will check in with us right after this break.

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in the depths. for a mate in the shallow. welcome back to the program the extradition hearing of wiki leaks founder julian assange london has begun it had been for spying for months suter the coronavirus locked out and leaving a song. let's go live now to shout it was dusty outside the court shut effects are keeping us in the loop just tell us a bit more about the hearing and what's so important. well it's an incredibly important day not only for truth and justice but also for wiki leaks founder julian assange it was back here at the criminal court the old bailey here in central london for his hearing proceedings which i'll treat me decide whether or not he'll be extradited to the united states now the hearing was supposed to happen much earlier this year but due to the covert 19 count demick it was put on hold until

now now early in the morning i saw for myself the very ground that carried him into the crown court directly behind me but also i saw his father that was outside the court and his partner stella morris who was also trying to plead for his immediate release from prison so today really opens the newest chapter in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute her in a song for an alleged playing a role in one of the largest compromises of what's the 5 information in the history of the united states and if found guilty and convicted for such a. probably will go to prison for up to 175 years and that says the u.s. has indicted him on 18 counts mostly under the espionage act and so the u.s. wanted to face trial for spying and publishing such classified military documents all related to the war in afghanistan and the war in iraq as well plus one of a conspiracy to hack a government computer to publish these such documents too but his journey to the

crown court ahead this hour this morning has been a very tumultuous ride indeed of course through the summer before and back into the public eye in april 2019 when he was infamously hold out of london's ecuadorian embassy he was then thrown into a belmarsh prison where he was serving a 15 week sentence for skipping back in 20 trials now what we're hearing now in the last few hours a german m.p. is really calling on the government in germany to give him political asylum. i call on the german government to offer julian assange political asylum in germany all within the european union and i ask my government if the german government can bring the russian alexina vanya to the sheraton hospital in berlin why doesn't it make the same offer to the seriously ill julian assange. now journalists are just me or team's biggest differences on medical grounds while he spent nearly a year and a half in the belmarsh prison without presenting any evidence in court his health

has been significantly deteriorating and he's been in and out of the medical ward belmarsh prison and in some court hearings he has not been able to be physically present due to his you know how i would also see the allegations even of torture within the belmarsh prison so that is a key line of defense for june a sarge and his legal team that will say he is not fit enough to go to the united states to face trial but also they will contend that the u.s. is seeking to prosecute your innocent for political offenses and that would exempt him from extradition according to the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty but the prosecution team will try to establish that you know saunders actions were not politically motivated and that he endangered lives by our releasing and publishing one of these classified top secret documents now we are just at day one of this week hearing is expected to last at least a month and will eventually decide whether or not you know the sergeant is extradited to the united states but campaigners very loud and very clear outside

the old bailey here today are saying it's not just your innocence in the dock today but actually beside him says the fundamental tenets of the rights of freedom of press and indeed the public's right to access information as well they say if genocide is actually right into the united kingdom it will not only silence your innocence but it will gag other journalists worldwide as well so for press freedom the stakes are really that high. so it was there see there outside the court thanks for keeping us updated on the ongoing extradition hearing. the american political activist and also norm chomsky to all that is going on the ground show it would be deemed illegal if the u.k. sends a songs to the united states. it would be a criminal act on the part of the british government to exceed 'd to the us the event for extradition on a songes of sense is not pain bail. now if he had good reasons not to because it would have been extradited if he had but not paying bill

requires a tap on the wrist not torture in a high security prison ok up to the point where he's not even a leader is allowed to receive books i'm in mass murderers or being treated like in a way beyond the worst issues criminal ok and if he's extradited it comes up for trial on the us espionage laws which even carry a potential death sentence it's trial is being tried in committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know and the powerful states don't want them to know. he's right face project clerks at the development of their son's case in what he tells. do you think i want to see the free press as

a real threat to. their son jason is really the biggest of investigative journalism the we've seen certainly this and. do the police and how it can be used like that against journalists i think is horrifying despite boris johnson's claims about the u.k.'s respect for journalists and media freedom many disagree the u.k. ranks 35th out of 180 countries in the 2020 world press freedom index released by reporters without borders the job of 2 places since 2019 i think the u.k. government likes the idea of media freedom as long as it doesn't impinge on the power so it likes to give the give the course about freedom and democracy and press freedom but in fact in reality if there's any journalism that impacts on their

ability to project power at home and abroad then there's a problem passed in 26 days in the investigatory powers act or snoopers charter as it's known by its critics that's the state monitor everybody's web history e-mail text and phone records and hack computers phones and tablets it prevents journalists it prevents n.g.o.s use it for bents anybody who is actually investigating state hell for doing their job these are all acts designed to clamp down on anybody trying to expose corruption and wrongdoing at the state there are an estimated 420000 c.c.t.v. cameras in london because about 48 cameras 1000 people this is more than any other city in the world according to a 2017 report by the brookings institution i worry about the use of surveillance cameras also with life facial recognition which is almost entirely unregulated but is now being. rolled out alive by the metropolitan police again that could be used

to track down journalistic sources and there are no safeguard whatsoever. up next and also documentary a 2 year investigation documents and besides the growing power of international all the tracing courts and multinational corporations the team about in 30 minutes to bring it that i just had lines join us again that. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we see me very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids oids invited america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean

him off though she just goes at their dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments. in 2016 millions of europeans are taking to the streets with union has refused to sign the free trade agreement with canada triggering a crisis across europe. that. at the treaty negotiations brought to light a largely unknown organization international arbitration type bugles that allow

multinationals to sue states. morris is trying to use i.s.t.'s to stop oregon from implementing new tobacco regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates of french company sued egypt because egypt raise its minimum wage astonishingly these arbitration tribunals can oblige states to pay huge compensation $50000000000.00 by all standards this is the largest award ever. to total amount of damages claimed as about 4700000000 you didn't know it's no surprise the trials are held behind closed doors everything takes place in utmost secrecy. every tradition are secret i mean that's that's the purpose of an

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