the invisible clicks. of. the headlines this hour on arch international the daughter of iran said top military chief assassinated by the u.s. earlier this year gives an emotional 1st interview to r.t. and reveals how she learned of her father's murder when i turned on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened. from that they tell. them it's so hard to. believe tape reveals wiki leaks founder julian assange tried to warn washington back in 2011 about the potential damage of thousands of classified u.s. state department cables that contrasting with claims he endangered american lives.

whatever you want to refer to. and angry restaurant workers demonstrate in new york over fears a new city lockdown will force many out of business. scared from my family from your average of you know if you will if there is nothing we will be sure to go probably buy more that's the realistic look around. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we started with our exclusive here on our chanter national in her 1st ever t.v. appearance we have spoken to the daughter of iran's former top military chief general so many was assassinated by the u.s. in a. drone strike back in january his daughter is

a knob gave in motional description of the moment she found out and spoke about of the consequences of her father's death full interview is on today's going underground which you can also watch at r.t. dot com but he has a taste of what was said the turbo all night. before a few hours that this happened for my father i hear and i spoke with him on the phone. and then i left. to lose it my family and i knew it that the situation in iraq was so dangerous so i added a child for the new is in iraq and my telegram of all it one am i see every deal is sharing on that china's had a girl about the explosion in the airport i had a phone call after that i hear from one of our friend he was asking for my father at various he is he ok or no because i hear any news that there is explosion in

airport. and your father was in the car and they hit it so i got so shocked and full of stress like my heart was going out from my chest when i turned on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened and from that they tell not i'm still shocked a lot of what happened it's so hard to believe how is the death of your road iran together what happened in iran and iraq was something it's something so special in the history you see how people come to the street and they are crying and they are sad and they are angry and they wonder events and they are waiting for an answer because they know. what generals really money did for them and they know also well why order to kill my father.

so so after that after killing my father america thought that everything would be stopped because they killed general soleimani departure of the middle east but they are so wrong they didn't see the anger of the od in the eyes of iranian people they didn't see their tears they didn't see their sadness and i have to say that generously money has a military from people that they will take revenge from trump and they are so wrong they are sinking this war will be end the end of general silly money this is the beginning our people are united and they will stand in front of such a dangerous powers why would donald trump say that your father was a monster well of course a 1st he is the monster not my father. and 2nd i will

say. my father did his job so well and make them so angry you are seeing every plant they are making them in the list is destroyed everywhere they are trying to enter and hurt iran they are failed why of course for them my father is a big monster but my father is a savior. he saved people not just his own country he did this for all countries he did this for people not just middle east he this troy i says because he don't want people people innocent in europe got killed by such a dangerous virus how my father can be a person who wants to kill an american people and people in europe how he was saving them from i says he was saving them so don't let anyone to hurt

them he was fighting for them how he can be a terrorist to kill people trump is gone in january and it will be joe biden who says he wants new relations with iran do you think it means anything that joe biden will be in the white house there is no difference between biden trump they are the same guy and they are following the same policy there is no difference between them trump or dare killing my father but biden support death so there is no different they have the same thought and they are following the same way and they are the same person joe biden cannot return my father he can it can't return it so there is the problem we have with our it is with their policy this will not change they are the same people the same mind the same

way. and it's one of them is worse than the other one. conservative outlet project a very toss has unveiled a tape revealing that julian a songe tried to limit the release of information damaging it to the u.s. back in 2011 on the recording as anja legibly speaks to cliff johnson an attorney at the us state department weekly leaks founder warns johnson that an archive of 250000 department cables containing classified information had been stolen and was being spread around the internet. who would be releasing the. green would not be. tried. for any.

of the material. wiki leaks has long been accused of carelessness in the way it handled the leaked documents as it was claimed they could endanger u.s. officials however the recording of a song speaking to the state department seems to demonstrate the opposite on it also suggested the u.s. government covertly removed the files from the internet and offered to help track them down but the unredacted information was published not long after now a year later took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london fearing extradition to the u.s. he was under active investigation by washington at the time for his role in publishing

documents on possible u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan however he was only charged with espionage in 2019 a month after british police dragged him from the embassy 7 years after being granted asylum there. to discuss the story further we are now joined live by journalist and author daniel is our thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so a song that warned the state department about the possible fallout that means they knew about the leak it looks like they didn't act on the information why do you think that might be. well i mean the state department was careless or to simply not concerned i mean told the this person that he had spent 24 hours calling very various u.s. government offices and no one no one would talk to him no one who no one would call 'd him back so so. soft had

a hard time making himself heard on this issue. critics of wiki leaks have long argued that the outlet is careless with the way it handles leaked documents however the leaked tape seems to demonstrate a bit of the opposite that they were trying to do some cleanup there at the very least do you think that that might be the case of course it was i mean i mean that tape shows quite clearly that that i'm a staunch is quite concerned about the release of these unredacted files so he is quite conscious of how the information could be misused he's quite concerned and therefore he wants to alert the relevant parties but you know the the u.s. is not tracked down a single person who was harmed in any way by information put out by weak ulick's they would love to find someone like that but they have been unable to track down a single case of any kind of harm that was done as a consequence now i mean the tape does show that it was trying to do some due

diligence but does this tape actually minimize or absolve us of any responsibility washington claims for these leaked cables. well i'm sure not i mean i'm sure washington will argue that it doesn't because those say that the the employee was was working for a wiki leaks that he that he had gained access the files by virtue of with the leaks and so therefore wiki leaks is responsible for granting him that access even if they they parted ways with them later so i'm sure that that washington will argue that it still is wiki leaks fault but i think anybody who listens this tape will show that wiki leaks is quite conscientious and trying to prevent any individual from suffering any kind of retribution as a consequence of the release of these files now we this doesn't happen in a vacuum the way it is politically charged a politically motivated in a lot of ways a sonorous supporters have been lobbying president trying to pardon him for the

last 4 years and a growing number of conservatives have joined those calls do you think that there's a possibility trump will do that that kind of a sort of a last jab at the establishment well i really have no inside information but i think would certainly be a good move on trump's part i mean be a way of a jabbing at the at the intelligence agencies which course made life miserable for trump and also the democrats i mean remember joe biden called the high tech terrorist the democrats have been extremely hostile to wiki leaks much more hostile than republicans so so therefore it be a good way for trump to stick it to his enemies all right interesting to hear your thoughts interesting case indeed journalist and author daniel lizza thanks for being with us here on our to international thank you. a health care worker in alaska has reportedly been hospitalized after receiving the coded vaccine developed by pfizer and bio intact it is said to be

a serious allergic reaction however the person is in stable condition we reached out to pfizer for comment and they did get back to us with more on that here's our tease. at this point we have reports from both the new york times and the washington post indicating that a health care worker in alaska has had a severe reaction to the vaccine from the fires or the vaccine from pfizer which is intended to defeat the covert $1000.00 pandemic has apparently given this worker a severe allergic reaction and the reports seem to indicate that the person did not have a history of severe allergic reactions now this comes on the heels of reports about 2 health care workers in the united kingdom who both had severe reactions to the vaccine as well however these 2 people in the united kingdom they were people that actually carried around they actually carried around auto injectors for adrenaline they had a history of very severe allergies they also had

a very very severe reaction to the pfizer vaccine and that caused the united kingdom to actually issued this warning regarding pfizer's vaccine take a listen and the person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine midsts and should not receive the fine is of be seen at this point fire has said that those with a history of severe adverse allergic reactions to vaccines were actually excluded from the late stage trials of the vaccine on which the panel of the u.s. food and drug administration f.d.a. approved the vaccine and the f.d.a. the united states has gone ahead and approved pfizer is vaccine but made clear that it is only available to those who are 16 years of age or older and who don't not be given to people with a history of severe allergic reactions anyone with a known history of subvert severe allergic reactions shouldn't be taking the vaccine and at this point we have got some very prominent officials praising this

new jab that's available to fight against cove it take a listen they have really good news today our nation has achieved and. medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history it will save millions of lives and soon independent mc once and for all i am thrilled to report that the f.d.a. has authorized the pfizer seen now we have reached out to pfizer and they did give us a response when we inquired for details of the pfizer drug corp said quote we don't yet have all the details of the report from alaska about a potential serious allergic reaction but we are actively working with local health authorities furthermore they emphasized that reports of adverse events outside of clinical studies are very important and

a component of our pharmacologic activities and we will review all of a little information on the case and all reports of adverse events following vaccinations so that was from pfizer's media relations they are monitoring the situation we have these reports about the health care worker in alaska so people are waiting for more information many are concerned about this vaccine will it be safe will it actually put an end to the pandemic as some have predicted so many are keeping their eye on this situation is certainly disturbing news to hear that a health care worker has had an adverse effect. germany has set another sad record in the pandemic with almost a 1000 deaths in the last 24 hours the news came on the 1st day of a strict new lockdown in the country reporting from berlin here's artie's peter all of. wednesday sees germany and a new lock down that will last through until the 10th of january but it also marks

a very grim record $952.00 deaths over the last 24 hours with a covert 19 being confirmed by the robert cock institute germany's public health body it comes as germany enters a new strict a lockdown basically all non-essential retail polluting things like head dresses and beauty salons as well closing down the only things really remaining open are banks in some cases pharmacies and supermarkets in order for people to buy food what they did see was a rush of people going to shopping malls on tuesday evening and an attempt to cram in some last minute in person christmas shopping.

combs after the previous measures that it being called lockdown light that came into play at the beginning of november when they would designed essentially to keep as much of the german economy open as possible at the expense of social contacts well everybody basically admitted they hadn't worked dear citizens we had all hoped to be further along but the virus still has us firmly in its grip from wednesday on work our public and private lives will therefore be more severely restricted than ever before in the history of the federal republic of germany the situation is bitterly serious and thousands of deaths in one week and an infection that threatens to get out of control we cannot avoid drastic measures here in berlin it's care homes that have been hardest hit when it comes to infections and deaths hoffa. around half of all deaths in berlin have been in care homes what we heard from chancellor angela merkel is

a message saying stay away from elderly relatives if you can because of the possibility of infection and with covert 19 could have huge long term impacts the ones i'm in the intel they know it's a feeling but i just it isn't it doesn't it is if i didn't use it i'm glad i didn't get it fast as i did. it's not going to be the most festive periods here in germany this year there is going to be a loosening of restrictions between the 24th and the 26th of this month but the message is still it may be a loosening of those rules but the virus doesn't take a break. still to come this hour as britain struggles to keep a lid on a migrant influx locals are fuming at plans to accommodate more asylum seekers on their doorstep that story is coming up after a short break. is

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of this thing we call matter you can hear to hear can change you can touch it it shapes soul it. doesn't change the galaxies or about it. welcome back this is arch international in america hundreds of restaurant workers have rallied in central new york they blame the governor for new lockdown restrictions which they say could force them out of business. what you want. the protest came a day after governor andrew cuomo banned indoor dining they want a relief package as a report finds that without help more than half of new york restaurants will close down for good and that includes some of the city's most iconic menus. now the

latest victim is new york's 21 club the famous establishment is now shutting its doors forever restaurant has been serving customers for a century among the most prominent visitors novelist ernest hemingway tennis player john mcenroe and almost every u.s. president since franklin roosevelt but 21 club is not alone small businesses have been devastated since the beginning of the pandemic here's what a local restaurant manager told us. every day and we there are some people we have a little bit of business. little bit more we had to bring some people back to work or with the. people we give them the people working full time job. so. having told people that i'm scared of my family i'm going to have a job you know if there is nothing we will be shutting down probably by more that's the realistic. britain is struggling to cope with

a growing number of asylum seekers and locals in one village are fuming at plans to accommodate them nearby ali has more. 20 twentieth's seen record numbers of people attempting to reach the united kingdom and claim asylum thousands made the journey a while all will be granted permission to stay long term all do need somewhere to live right now but the question is well one location under consideration it's here in the from village of boston stacy in hampshire where there are proposals to build accommodation bob to 500 young men seeking asylum with just the church a part of the village store and a population of only a 1000 people that if it is it simply won't cope just move were very large 500 people squat lot so i think maybe i'm not against the idea of the idea of it's good it's just the placement i think is a little off to maybe it should mean more towards a city or town. my concerns my city but if you surround the facilities in the area

the fact that it will be the other side of the atrium 3 to any shops or any other buildings like that is just going to cause a danger i think with people trying to cross the carriage but the issue here is that's a field in the middle of the countryside with no facilities and their services so whatever happens people are going to have to walk somewhere. to get any services that. they still like. the petition by council to stop the home office from implementing the idea has been saturated but some in the local council are more welcoming of the idea i said in the falklands in 1800 they were it was devastation all around people they couldn't see any that they were trying to tear this ational faith he's right and we don't understand that relieving trying to sell ice peace and quiet you know we have no concept unless you've been there you don't understand what the people of interest what they found changes just to survive.

thank you this empty plot is ministry of defense the land that's been floated as a location for the facility built temporary structures will include dining and sanitation facilities as well as. access to basic recreation but it's been compared to prison like conditions in some one of the possibility of overcrowding and the location of a busy country lane with low footpaths could be dangerous to. concerns have already been raised about other locations used to house asylum seekers such as the napier barracks facility in folks in kent the government to spend millions on housing asylum seekers and say visa just temporary measures while they work to find more sustainable solutions given pressure on the system during these unprecedented times we have worked tirelessly with local authorities and other partners to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with suitable accommodation as we are required to do by law if the napier barracks experience is anything to go by there are phases of overcrowding over the cove in $1000.00 kind that makes that

ongoing the safety of those housed in the accommodation and local residents is paramount but with the number of asylum seekers needing shelter set to rise other communities could be placed in a very similar positions to the sally ots u.k. who bought and stacey. the e.u. has unveiled strict new digital market rules to challenge the dominance of global tech giants the proposed legislation would apply only to the biggest companies with tens of millions of users like google and amazon and officials behind the draft bill say they had no choice now we have such an increase in the online traffic that we need to make rules that put order into chaos everybody is where you come in europe. vote our responsibility is to decide and to give directions and to rooms just to protect what is important to us. the new rules

could strip big tech of up to 10 percent of turnover if they break the competition principles european officials also want to be told about big merger or acquisition plans in the sector repeat violators may be banned from the e.u. market google has already criticised the proposal as selective punishment but europe is not alone in its opposition to these big companies just last week 48 states in the united states together with the federal trade commission filed a lawsuit against a facebook and accused the company of pumping money into unfair competition we asked experts whether this latest move will keep big tech in check. the idea behind this is to not try to narrow it into just one kind of attack but across all the tech spectrum of so-called gatekeepers the e.u. has consistently is lined amazon find google find facebook for violating their rules over and over a key problem here is the fact that these companies continue to break the law

france and germany continually say facebook is violating the law google is violating the law so they assigned them record size fines these companies build this into their actual bottom line in terms of a line item in their budgets to say we're going to pay fines because we're going to break the rules the penalties are enormous we're talking about 10 percent of global turnover and then if there is a persistent noncompliance that could be increased to 5 percent of daily then over there you worldwide but over the e.u. you saying hey you know we want to be able to to give internet companies we want to give them an opportunity to compete do. google will just have to accept the new reality. to the new rules it is difficult to see. fully get out of the e.u. altogether could see the ball the reality is that the village solution technology

72 different speeds and the law are not able to for all the evolution of technology sloan's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the. state in the 20 years ago you cannot force tech giants a tool follow the rules we dismantle finance and 'd speaking we have seen in the last couple years certain very small fine is enormously nicky's is these fines are nothing off and off to scare giants doesn't for me this hour be back at the top of next hour with another look at the news this is our international stay with us.

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