thanks. marty exclusive wiki leaks confirms the authenticity of the recording and it could spin the narrative on june the sun it shows the whistleblower did chart did try to prevent not facilitate the release of thousands of sensitive u.s. cable reports knew about the tape when deciding on his extradition to america. this is evidence that you can point. to is not new to the. transcript called for this conversation was presented to the courts in september also this hour russia banned from all major sporting events over alleged doping cut in half to 2 years but the country's clean athletes can't understand why the whole

nation is being forced to compete as neutral. cities are not sent to prison for the crimes of a few it was clear that an attack was underway on russian sport so it would hardly be allowed to play under our flag. and groundhog day for google is the tech giant faces a 2nd anti naacp legal suit in this many days over claims of exploited advertising online. so they're welcome you watching r.t. international now the head of wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of the recording that could be a game changer for julian assange chinon r.t. exclusive the audio seems to prove to be a straining whistle blower in fact try to warn the u.s. state department about a mass breach back in 2011 which turned out to be one of the biggest leaks in american history. washington later claimed

a songe wanted to endanger lives or kristinn hrafnsson says the tape could put the brakes on a songes extradition and charges a man to 175 years in jail. this evidence that you heard and i can control him that this is authentic is not new to the courts in the u.k. a transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it supposedly throws out the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department in their indictment and try to use their to get a measured a lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk or following these revelations more than 400000 people around the world have already signed a petition calling on u.s. officials to drop the charges against the son and politicians and activists want donald trump to to pardon him before he leaves office in january is asked. public

enemy number one a man with no conscience no morals no remorse judean a solemn child's been smeared as a villain who revealed the ugly face of u.s. foreign policy but i would argue that it's closer to being in the high tech terrorists this disclosure is not just an attack on america's foreign policy interests it is an attack on the international community wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service is a narcissist who has created nothing of value here lies on the dirty work of others to make himself famous he is a fraud a coward hiding behind a screen 10 years that narrative ron but is it all about to change is it actually the whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington that sells a new t released tapes reveal a song to tempted to warn the us state department and then boss had to reclaim 10

back in 2011 not only does it seem she had to mold the cools she went as far as this key has to answer for what he has done so what was the motive for helping a firestorm was coming in the form of a rogue wiki leaks employee online. having teletypes. thought about. trying to pick up. on cable news. spread around. to. the degree that. we've. become public. some possibility. so no right can see dropping a political bombshell standing back and watching it burn as we've been told is easy is disguise. traitor

a treasonist i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a beast on our great discredit to this nation should be assassinated you should be treated as an enemy combatant with you it should be closed down permanently and decisively no instead we hear a song trying to protect those and washington the very same who now want to send him down so life. having. people here is that it's more your problem but we have been calling. them p.m.c. . every day trying to train. hold back it's thought to the wiki leaks out it's even advise the state department to tell anyone why the encrypted files could be allegedly found and also help to remove them a decade on a song just sitting in london's belmarsh prison waiting to hear whether it will be extradited to the us to face

a potential 175 yes sentence that's a hell of a sentence for someone who tried to warn the very top of what was coming so is it any wonder now that cools a mounting for president trump to pardon the whistleblower on hoping that he will pardon julian assange it's the right thing to do donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the deception and criminality of those in the deep state mr president if you grown so you want to act of clemency during your time in office please free julian assange those you alone can save his life if you don't i'll try can save julie and encourage brave activists rolled worries time and timing is everything it's change the image of a modest who was cost out as a traitor and without running out for donald trump's presidency i'm on wiki leaks but to replace him in the white house this could be the last chance for america to

pop. an unfit give a man who wanted to save washington from that same time is of the essence for a sonorous to avoid a life in jail the assistance was offered to to to stop this or mitigate any and it possible harm to this i have no idea why this was not followed through and it took up the offer of the help the julian was was carefully and considerably. worried in offering to say the problem the state department never came back to julian for more information and seemed to have not done anything based on his warning when we spoke to journalists activists and formative former diplomats about these latest developments. they've built a case around. the claim that he's a loose cannon that he's not a journalist this obviously throws that out the window because it shows he was doing his stooge ill gentz to as he's always claimed to have done. but you know it

doesn't change the american government's attitude it's i will be astounded if trump has the guts to pardon and drop the church or drop the charges against him which i suppose he could actually order his. department of justice to do still while he's lame duck president john the heat in the middle for years. and i guess hearing julian speaking as a young boy and hearing him basically pleading with the state department to help him help them help people really changed a lot of people i think i was very pleased with the only evidence. i hope i'm hoping that it gets a chance because i don't see how he could possibly here that he and continue this political persecution remember of course that the. people are very pressing for

the extradition of julian assange and jim pierson for the union to be prosecuted for espionage for the crime of being a journalist but the people who want that's exactly the same people who who were testing before us now should get narrative. so donald trump has a powerful motive to. to go against those people and to and come to their influence so i'm not without hope that donald trump will issue a pardon julian was not the 1st person to release this information it was already on dozens of websites being leaked twitter obviously the guardian carty that password to get the files. and then they ended up only prosecuting julian julian is the only one that. he's the only one he's currently sitting. well dozens of other people published it or what sense is it me it's you allow the 1st 99 people

in the hunnish 100 words is that it's been the democrats that are angriest at him because of you know the clinton capes that he released. and. you know the the prosecution of the war under obama. it was a bomber certainly had the ability to to pardon him or drop the charges really it's dropping the charges because he has new found guilty of anything. and that could have been done with as you know a stroke of a pen any time by obama and he never did it nobody actually was harmed by the leaks and in the end the that's quite an important thing to state the chances of the legal process in the end going against you in the very limited time and i think the grounds for extradition for a political offense and it does excluded by the u.k.

u.s. extradition treaty i think will be knocked down by a higher court in the u.k. the worst sent united states i think in a very obvious attack on the 1st amendment implied in using we have spin object against a journalist would get it knocked down in the higher courts and in america so the ultimate legal i'm not too concerned about the problem is the terrible terrible conditions julian has been kept in in in a maximum security jail alongside terrorists conditions amounting to torture and it's the process. which is a pro. sports top court has cut russia's ban from all major sporting events for dating offenses from 4 years to tell you and says that the country's athletes will only be able to compete as neutrals however russia's elim pick chiefs still believe that the punishment is too harsh. this is we do not welcome the decision to

partially satisfy world then to doping agency's claim and deprive russia 19 oping agency of its compliance status with the world anti-doping code our position is initially based on the fact that there are no grounds for any full or partial punishment for sata and consequently any sanctions against the participants of the case we believe that in this part of the court did not fully take into account the presented dark humans everyone is so used to sanctions against russia as a whole this is no surprise i would not like to be categorical but in general this is abnormal it is necessary to punish but cities are not sent to prison for the crimes of a few here and the whole country has been punished because someone stumbles. it's an ambiguous story in general this decision was predictable but this is not for us to decide sports politics is such that few have inside information about what is

happening at the top and therefore we were only in the process of waiting but the rough picture was clear it was clear that an attack was under way on russian sport so it would hardly be allowed to play under our flag but i am glad that there was no complete dismissal so then the ban does may no russian flag or anthem at international sporting events until the end of 2020 and that includes the next summer and winter olympics and also the football world cup but as more against you have now explains there could still be twists and turns to. in what may be described as a remarkably anticlimactic conclusion the court of arbitration for sport refrained from an outright ban then watered down waters recommended participant after years of scandal and accusations bickering and petty insults the duping sega is over for now russia which categorically denied allegations of state assisted duping wanted

all restrictions lifted but instead must settle for 2 years rather a 4 year battle during this period it could neither host nor bid for the major sporting tournament its flag and national anthem will also be bad but clean russian athletes not involved in the doping scandal will be allowed to participate at the olympics the collective punishment clause that saddam wanted to paint every russian athlete as a potential cheat is gone that was nice because of the most important result of our collaborative effort is the fact that the court of arbitration for sport has an extended its support for a world unto duping agency in applying measures of collective for accountability and refused to introduce additional participation criteria for russian athlete and the olympic games paralympic games and world championships in the world and he duping agency wanted a ruling but it says it respects the court's decision for his fare for the next 2

years so no more scandal no more investigations who fully it all ends all restrictions will be lifted it's a new start which not everyone is happy about the united states especially has made a stink of it that have preferred a more permanent battle usada acknowledges the devastating decision from the court of arbitration for sport in the russia case that hands water and clean athletes a significant loss at this stage in assorted russian stay. sponsored doping affair now spanning close to a decade there is no consolation in this week watered down outcome to once again escape a meaningful consequence proportional to the crimes much less a real ban is a catastrophic blow to clean athletes the integrity of sport and the rule of law we shift course is ridiculous given the unprecedented enmity between the u.s.

and the world adds he duping agency largely because washington allegedly attempted to seize control of it and threatened to cut its payments to wada if it didn't play along it didn't and it made clear that american athletes risk being blocked from the olympics if washington stops paying its jews at the end of the day this final ruling pleased know what a gulp of that these are these tough times for wada with calls and cries demanding the agency reform or outs but unless something changes the decision is final and then and a fresh start for gas if that gets comfy this outpatients literally parked up in ambulances because of a shortage of hospital beds that's the situation in northern ireland at the moment which is fighting against the pandemic details in a couple of minutes. is

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. hello again now here in russia more than 28000 new cave 900 cases were confirmed this friday and that does take the total number of infections in the country to almost 3000000 in the meantime the rollout of the sputnik the vaccine has begun and from monday journalists and transport workers in the capital will be among the next in line to receive it so let's get more information now from reporter roman called good evening romance the vaccine is being rolled out as we know but for now at least the infection numbers are still going up what are the authorities say. well

let's talk about moscow 1st of all the number offical bit cases here remains high but scientists from the st petersburg science from st petersburg state university. the penn demick already peaked in the russian capital this week now they supported their claim with their own mathematical model created to predict the spread of now while it may seem like good news from moscow the situation in st petersburg well it remains alarmingly tense according to local health officials only 4 percent of hospital beds that were earmarked for patients remain vacant and that means the hospitals are almost filled to capacity the situation is different throughout the country of course president putin spokesperson me trip to scoff said that at the moment there are no plans for a complete lockdown while the head of state himself admits to country having some

issues with the pandemic bud's everything is under control according to police and . you go to those you know health care system in any country was prepared for it our system proved to be more or less efficient we are aware of issues that we've had and we are dealing with them the pandemic required closing down some facilities and production unemployment has been on the rise and incomes unfortunately have been going down this is not just empty talk we know how to make it better russia was the 1st country in the world to come up with and start producing its own vaccine it's 95 percent effective not a single serious case of side effects foreign colleagues are ready to work with us . now the russian president announced earlier that in addition to sputnik the. other vaccines are now in development puts in the also suggested that former soviet

republics that are now part of the commonwealth of independent states could also get involved in the production process of a russian vaccines meanwhile russia is now into week where people can get inoculated against corona virus speaking about some moscow in particular so far more than 15000 people were vaccinated one of 70 dedicated places around the russian capital mayor of moscow sergei sabean said that's a 1000000 more citizens may get their gold shield starting monday december 21st you know. russia is currently limited to people in the 18 to 60 age group and people who are older will also get their vaccine but a little bit later and the. let's hope things go well that roman cost of their reporting from the center of moscow thank you. meanwhile patients know the nanda

being treated in the back of ambulances in hospital car parks because of a chronic lack of capacity is cases they're accused of ambulances filmed outside clinics throughout the country and with no beds free at hospitals in county antrim for example 17 lined up outside its emergency department one patient reportedly stayed there overnight we spoke with the medic. i've been a doctor for over 35 years the sins of the ambulance and screwed up side accident merging. apartments is unprecedented but. it is very important that we get our infection rates under control and we need clear concise advice to our population and we need clear action by our executive to reduce those numbers we do know that locked i'm doss reduce them i know it is difficult but we need to get the numbers to i'm about our health service and cope

until hopefully we start to get the vaccination rolled out to our population where the situation has been called critical with more than 59000 confirmed cases and 1100 deaths in northern ireland will go into a 6 week lockdown after christmas day residents are being urged to leave their homes only for centuries and that the 1st minister said there was little choice. and a big disappointment to many i think a lot of people also would have expected it and it's very clear that we needed an urgent intervention and i think this is the right decision by the executive albeit i accepted the challenge and for many many people unfortunately last time seems to be the only true look we have to reduce numbers of people getting was virus and hospital admissions and that's it's a very difficult decision for our part for our politicians to make they have to

balance of the risks of. increasing numbers going into hospital into a see you do that to it's against the mental well being of the population and also the economic problems that this has caused. i think a prolonged lockdown would have been beneficial. here. in other news tech giants are facing a wave of lawsuits at the moment with google the latest in the firing line he's been slapped with a 2nd anti monopoly case in 2 days this time from state attorney generals and filing a lawsuit against google with 37 a torn new generals' to end its legal monopoly in series services it doesn't take a web search to understand that until it's corporate power shouldn't have disproportionate control over our data and information but the lawsuit alleges that google showing favoritism in search results downgrading competing websites the

company's also accused of not giving uses any choice but to use its products on devices who can insist that sanctions do actually benefit consumers because a sister gets the company still man system quarter explains google staring down the battle of a lawsuit filed on wednesday by a federal court in texas it's backed by 10 states who are crying foul on the tech giants apparent anti-competitive practices google is a trillion dollar monopoly going so far as to induce senior facebook executives to agree to a contractual scheme that undermines the heart of competitive process google is essentially trading on insider information by acting as the pitcher catcher better and umpire all at the same time this is anti-market and illegal the plaintiffs are claiming google's formed a monopoly around the means of online advertisement and that it's unclear who it's with facebook which is manipulating the market in exchange for favors google says

the connection is a lot of baloney but soccer has already taken flak for his company's buyer barry competition tactics facebook's got another lawsuit to deal with from the federal trade commission. facebook has maintained its monopoly position by buying up companies that present competitive threats and by imposing restrictive policies that unjustifiably into actual well potential rivals that facebook does not or cannot acquire and that's just the tip of the big tech lawsuit iceberg in october google had yet another legal battle on its hands once again accused of monopolist practices today millions of americans rely on the internet and online platforms for their daily lives competition in this industry is vitally important which is why today's challenge against google for violating enter trust laws is a monumental case both for the department of justice and for the american people across the atlantic europe's waging its own war on tech giant rule breakers it's

a gatekeeper it breaks the rules we can impose fines if it's done it several times repeats asli we can also impose structure remedies divestiture that sort of things tech giants roots go deep into the every day lives of millions of people around the world it would be hard to imagine life without them but with legal battles becoming more commonplace than ever it might be important to remember that the bigger they are the harder they fall down course or their will to take giants are also taking aim at each other facebook has paid for advertisement some major newspapers attacking apple for planning to let users opt out of tracking on its i phone and that has been a major source of income for facebook. whose book is speaking out for small businesses those new iowa's 14 policy will have a home full impact on many small businesses that are struggling to stay afloat but on the free internet that we all rely on more than ever apple however claims to be the hero in the story the company says the move which comes into force next year

will protect users privacy. we believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it is used facebook can continue to track users across apps and website as before at track in transparency i.o.'s 14 will just require that they ask for your permission 1st but we got the views of it or studies expert michael rex wild he says that facebook is hardly a shining example when it comes to good practice facebook has been agreed just a violator of privacy of course people sign effectively sign away their privacy rights when may create an account but they have also really collaborated with the governments especially in the u.s. they're using the small business. as a stalking horse there hiding behind it just state a proxy for their own interests really i mean they haven't done anything for small

businesses and i would venture to guess that their majority of their ad revenue does not come from small businesses anyway apple has been the most protective of user privacy of all the big tech firms and i'm not praising apple gratuitously here they have been more reluctant to what for example the n.s.a. in the back door of their data to collect data from their users they've they've not revealed how to mop their phones apple could probably negotiate a deal with facebook and perhaps that this is just a rhetorical move in order to do so so that they could explore extort money out of facebook for getting rid of this particular feature but if they don't then it's very admirable. and that brings you up to date the need for the saddle back again and about as.

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