if you look at the. headlines this hour moscow slams what it called was fabricated accusations against russia affiliate website charged with violating sanctions also to come this from supporters rally against what they claim a rigged results a new witness testimony to suggest to you that they may have a point. back as the ballots being ran through the tabulating machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times i know or saw with the return addresses filled out thousands of. tons of further angered by hack you say massive mainstream media bias types of c.n.n. briefings leaked by a conservative group. i've been on these calls there's no diversity of opinion

nobody objects nobody challenges. but i get a feeling welcome to watching our senior national where 2 o'clock am moscow now employees of the russian affiliated news agencies. have been released but ordered not to leave latvia after being accused of violating sanctions that it has more details all we know at the moment is that they've been accused of violating personal european union sanctions against the c.e.o. of russia's a receipt news agency. now the russian foreign ministry they have already reacted to what's happening in and they said that latvia's crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of the use sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry also say. the e.u.

descriptions are all of a personal nature against mr get off and they can multiply just about everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are on there his managements and they consider the aggressive actions of the security service a blatant example of violating the foundations for democratic society which is freedom of media and expression it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the use of 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations now the accused journalists and their colleagues certainly. outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictment against germany and against journalists and they're being persecuted for coal parading with a russian news outlets now the crackdown on the russian speaking latvian journalist . well it had all of the intimidating attributes and features and they were there were searches in the homes and places over work there was confiscated personal

property and equipment there were interrogating which lasted for hours one person was interviewed for 8 hours. after all of that was done the journalists were released but they were asked to stay in latvia to leave the country and of course sign a non-disclosure agreement sputnik had a statement about this as well the latin citizens who are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt of civil and news agency according to a lot of money and is tonia the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the imposed on the agency's general director joins ricky sort of in $24.00 scene now russian mission and the see they also expressed their concern they tweeted out saying this is another flagrant violation by rigo of the o.e.c.d. commitments on freedom of speech and access to information. persecution of russian

speaking journalists in the baltic countries is not something new for example just the end of last year going into this year sputnik. and now there journalists were forced through to break their contracts with the sputnik because the stoning in. police were threatening them with jail also cited these 24. sanctions personally against mr however the outlets that we've been talking about today none of them have ever appeared on the sanctions list so that's what we have for now. ok let's get more on the story now with our martin summers he's an independent journalist and joins us good afternoon to you martin what do you make of this story because on the face of it it does look like these journalists are being punished for what their boss supposedly has or has not done well i mean it's only going low level harassment visitors and they obvious thing questions you ask

is why now these sanctions have been in place since 2040 and of course there's a long going war of sanctions if you like with with the escalated rhetoric around what's happened with the election of our own so the question with question is why have they done this no and of course the the war the question is is it legitimate to use sanctions as a means of preventing the alternative use that you don't like and of course at the most extreme we saw that in the news for you slowly with the bombing of the serbian national t.v. station or the missiles that were used to take out we all just 0 offices in kabul during the afghan war. come russia has come out and said you know it really does believe this breaches freedom of speech in all sorts of other sort of legal

issues would you expect some sort of tit for tat response here well obviously that's the thing that might happen i mean that and you know when diplomats get expelled and the obvious answer is you expel some of their diplomats i would suggest that in actual fact this kind of petty the rest and shows up the people who are carrying it out and you know it would not make sense to all in my mind to do similar things to western journalists in moscow for example just because they're being stupid doesn't mean you've got to cope with them. and on the fact that these 2 journalists aren't allowed to leave latvian either. it does seem to be very harsh what's being done to them at the moment in light of what's been said. well yes i mean they're obviously lucky and citizens and as you know the luck has got quite a large russian speaking population so it's also a question for the courts unluckier can you just forbid your own nationals to leave the country. and i think like all of these contests if you like or contest the

people trying to show that they're being reasonable they latvian orthorexic is no doubt will claim they are being reasonable in this case but i would suggest of objective observers that they're not on the way you deal with on reasonable people is by being more reasonable know that would you go along with the accusations some of made that this is actually just sort of there's a risk of subtext war of this well yes i mean what's underlying all of this is the ongoing face off between russia and the west and of course we've just seen a presidential election in the us but i don't think that's going to make any difference to this ongoing. confrontation which has got very deep roots in the dean of the desire of western military industrial complex to have an enemy and you know there's going to be no easy change in this and elite on suit this is just an ongoing war of attrition is that it is ok martin that we're going to leave it there

but always good to get your thoughts that was martin sum as an independent to turn this thanks for coming on. the u.s. president elect joe biden has invited donald trump to his signal in organization claiming it will give a positive sign that the post-election chaos is ending but it is unclear whether the millions who still think that tree was stolen from trump believe this move will heal the divisions. now. from supporters to still coming out chanting stop the steele and citing multiple irregularities this despite officials in swing state geologist saying a 2nd recount should confirm that biden was the winner don't cotton loops that high the reputation of u.s. elections the whole vote may be starting to get a little tanishq. it was only about a month left until the big transition of power in the white house and yet it looks

like the battle for the presidency is not yet over this may be the most important speech i've ever made i want to provide an update on our own going efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculous lee long nov 3rd elections if we are right about the fraud. joe biden can't be president trump is sticking to his guns still insisting he was cheated out of the election and calling on the supreme court to overturn the results his lawyers though have yet to prove their case and the justice department says the current administration is full of baloney so what is it that the trumpet ministration is making such a fuss about while in new york one u.s.p.s. driver claimed a trailer with thousands of ballots disappeared into thin air a newer with return addresses filled out thousands of them while in wisconsin an ex postal worker even claimed his coworkers were ordered to backdate the ballots

u.s.p.s. employees were ordered to backdate ballots that were received too late to be lawfully counted ballots in liveries in the middle of the night people filling in the blank ballots for by misplacing duplicate souther wisconsin poll workers claim similar violations as well as the widely shared testimony from this michigan election contractor who claimed she blew the lid off some dodgy dealings in detroit there was. actually the ballots being ran through that had been waiting machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times her testimony has already been put through the wringer of public opinion and the justice department's also made up its mind about these claims we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. the thing is though the d.o.j. won't say why what does raise the eyebrows of conservative officials all we're asking for is own where there is evidence of improper impropriety that you examine

and we want the transparency we want to understand is investigation going on. what kind of investigation what are you looking for for years americans have been told evil russian meddling is undermining democracy and now that biden seems to have won the election there's not so much as a whisper on that front that the russians really just decide to sit out this very important election or perhaps the very system itself is at fault here it's clear that these elections are corrupt through and through but not for the reasons that donald trump highlights the corrupt are going through because there's an electoral college that does not recognize the popular vote there's already a complete lack of trust people do not respect the electoral college most americans can't even explain the electoral college or provide any type of justification a logic for which there is none many americans don't even participate in presidential elections because they understand that it's. a choice between 2

oppresses for the next 4 years between tweedle dee tweedle dum trump is just expose the system from the right and created these visions that have long existed. i prefer c.n.n. biased against donald trump support a u.s. conservative preschool to the types of conference calls held by the nice network and one clip released by project very tasa c.n.n. special correspondent is her describing how she's been advised by lawmakers to avoid giving trump too much air time. i just keep hearing the same thing from republicans who have not been there to congratulate biden. but also to you know what happened to democrats and that is that we have to be you know news organizations have to be very careful and responsible. not keeping track of too much of the platform.

seating because the trolls useful to go forward with a correspondent herself hasn't commented on the release types yet whether the networks communications team has tweeted the project very tasks may have broken the law by snooping on it stuff and have referred the case to miller enforcement the communications manager that if a project where a task a youth my colleagues muscatel of his views on the types and whether he faces legal action. you hear the outgoing president of c.n.n. jeff zucker dictating to his hosts reporters editors and producers what the news will be not based on whether it is true not based on whether it's important but whether or not it fits jeff zucker's world view and personal political agenda there's no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges c.n.n.

did react very quickly on twitter that said it is going to get your in full swing involved my question is are you ready and do you think the door is on your side i don't believe for a minute that the police are to come knocking on our door everything that project veritas does is legal we have a very well trained and very well paid legal staff and i'm highly confident that everything we did was within the legal guard rails you know and no one has called us from from law enforcement that's just something they said that tweet came from cnn's p.r. staff and i think you can call that a p.r. stunt and i want to ask you one of the tables what todd and i knew a private discussions without his work space would you support it as well that. who who is objecting c.n.n. i mean they ran secretly recorded tapes of 1st lady malani

a trump just weeks ago they were in the access hollywood tapes they ran tapes secretly recorded of mitt romney when he was the 2012 republican candidate for president the idea that c.n.n. is suddenly upset. about somebody rick christie quickly recording a meeting or a conference call and put and putting out to the public that's absolutely absurd but as we heard that then that makes also pay to show c.n.n. chief jeff zucker ordering employees not to know when i strummed claims on the election legal the media and the sideline all told us he believes that news outlets which shout the most about their impartiality usually show the least. so the question is what role did o'keefe play because if he if he just got the number himself somebody let's say you just gave it to him and he dialed in himself never being a part of us i think you may have legal problems but this is weird because now we have zoom cause and now we have new areas of conversation and conference it's not

a one on one conversation and don't forget lionel's law the law always lags behind technology if we had done the same thing let's say to. the phlox or an actor or a n or something how bad you we would maybe hear something maybe not as blatant as that but certainly a journalistic bias and there are other people who say this is the brand the idea of you tuning in to c.n.n. you want to hear a liberal anti trump stuff i'm sorry but that's a fact so being true to the bank brand to the shareholders they have to produce but here's the thing which is amazing when you look at people who go out of their way to see we are the news we are unbiased fair and balanced is this in essence a form of trademark law is this perjury to say enjoy any kind of liability for misleading the consumer if i tell you something is 100 calories but it's 200 you've got to believe i may get

a lawsuit well if i'm lying about the content why shouldn't it apply otherwise watch this being addressed in the courts coming up you're watching r t still had fetus out of the family of palestinian brothers severely injured by an israeli raid on their home says israel now admits it was a mistake we'll have the details just after birth. join me every thursday on the alex song i'm sure i'll be speaking to. politics sports i'm sure i'll see you then. when things become more extreme in which each to play when this is like breaking norms not necessarily in a good way. the. right isn't as you strain is not

a reality of. continuity or change this is what is when considering the potential for. me to point to obama's legacy will be the same to trump's like this or is this all only rhetorical continuity drives foreign policy not the occupant in the. welcome back. of sustained horrific injuries after israeli soldiers apparently detonated an explosive device there refugee camp one of the men who stayed in hospital shared his story with us but. at the so the army came at around 6 am

while me and my family were asleep the soldiers placed an explosive device at the door and blew it up. i woke up from the pain in my legs and found out that my brother was injured as well that's what i remember i was injured and then arrested while i was on the stretcher i was in a coma for 18 days i had surgery 9 times i even wanted to amputate my leg a month and a half later my father visited me and i didn't even recognize him at 1st and then i slowly started to improve but it's now been 3 months or mohammed's brother has been detained without trial according to his family their father described to us the shock of seeing his injured sons and questions why it happened where the birth came those tears and from both my sons droning in their blood their legs shredded with pieces of flesh the wounds in the soldiers i couldn't handle seeing my children it

is brutal and inhuman why did they have to use this huge explosive device even our neighbors from 2 kilometers away heard the explosion i was allowed to visit my sons in the hospital a week later they were in a serious condition and then they arrested one of them without charge or trial he was sent to prison when i visited him he was walking on crutches he had platinum in his legs replacing the bones because he shouted what israel says it was carrying out an anti terror raid seizing armed military operatives weapons and also ammunition a statement described the brothers as activists adding that our mad will be held in the ministry of detention until march dr even. in israel defense forces reserve officer says he has little sympathy for the. i can tell you and testify form the field that the army do not wake up in the morning look for what looking for what

door to break into they have intelligence they do they do beautifully went to that house precisely and you know that a policy to deliberately hide beyond metal doors or human shields like women and children how common is it for any innocent palestinians to be injured by israel i didn't make any research about how common but i can tell you for sure that it's very common to any jihad islamic activist to help deliberately innocent people in israel and the job of these early army is not to count innocent palestinian terrorists is only to take care of our citizens and prevent any attempt to kill them deliberately to kill innocent citizens in this world this is the mission of our idea of we're not looking to hurt innocent people we are not waking up in the morning and say oh it's a long time we haven't been in geneva it's time to break it go in janine it's in

delhi germans police sites intelligence we went. to find this special they've always we to break to bring them into prison that's what we did and we proceeded to do so. well said one of the brothers to say that the army has acknowledged the raid was a mistake that cousin and i want some answers to why matt is in jail. they treat every post an innocent threat so we went to court because of the way the soldiers burst in as for ahmed they said his case is classified and accused him of being a member of the islamic jihad movement even though there was nothing against him. he got 6 months in prison. because really army told me that i was injured by mistake a mistake made by one of the soldiers who thought there was someone inside the house so they decided to burst into the house in

a brutal way which none of us expected but after we were injured the soldiers started arguing with each other about why it happened but when i reached hospital they paid for everything and when the lawyer arrived he also said that the army had knowledge is that it's there for. me and my brother were both hit because of a mistake but he was arrested because he'd been arrested before. $1.00 and $3.00 small businesses have called time in some us states and one of the most disturbing effects of the pandemic that america's mega billionaires are making unprecedented cash is the rest of the country seems to suffer are these kind of market takes a closer look. american politicians love to sing the praises of small businesses however with a pandemic going on we've got small businesses disappearing very fast at this point one 3rd of small businesses in both new york and new jersey have gone under with more expected to disappear soon it's really bad and without federal dollars coming

into new jersey the monsters tool is now the establishment is going to make it through the winter while small businesses are falling on hard times other folks have been raking in the benjamin's. things are going great for amazon with people stuck at home and shopping online the

corporate giant has been on a hiring been with 427300 new employees in just 10 months it appears they're not afraid to kick the little guys even when they're down many small companies have told us during this year long investigation that they were mistreated abused and tossed amazon the evidence we've collected the shoes that amazon is only interested in exploiting its monopoly power over the e-commerce marketplace now on the surface of it looks like this is just simply a pandemic it's a case of bigger boat staying afloat during a storm however if you look a little bit deeper it seems like things have been rigged. could be radical lefty if you'd like but i refuse to accept a system that enables jeff bezos to grow his wealth by $66000000000.00 in 5 months during a pandemic the slip full $2000000.00 americans on the brink of eviction american politicians have been talking about imposing restrictions and regulations and

raising taxes on the rich however it all seems to just be talk those rich corporations are getting richer while the american middle class is dying off small businesses have to be competitive they don't have the money to buy the politicians they don't have the money to get the laws written for them think of it this way we have to capitalism we have one capitalism for the big companies the jews heard about tesla. or amazon or easels those you've heard about and then we have another capitalism much more competitive much more reliable you actually businessman are all going to try to find a way or the i.r.s. has a completely different system has different needs as different limits to itself and live in a system in which these t. co-exist but only through much bitterness between it and the irony is very dangerous for the united states of america is that for our inner sanctum this is

why eaten too deep in the quality of the rich have gotten much much richer and the millions of people have gotten to the united states often likes to hail the achievements of the free market and print competition however it seems like when certain people rise to the top they often like to change the rules in order to make sure they stay there caleb r.t. new york. thanks being with us is afternoon that brings up to date with all the news for this hour we're back again in about 30. 0 look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i

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