what's funny about that among my dog is democracy going to come up thinking i'm sick i'm gone missing are going to go we have to get out what am i going to be. in an r.t. exclusive wiki leaks confirms the authenticity of the recording that could spin the narrative on julian assange shows that whistleblower did try to prevent not facilitate the release of thousands of sensitive u.s. cables it's claimed that the courts knew about the tape when deciding on his extradition to america there's evidence that you can point true but this is old. news not new to the courts in the u.k. transcript of this conversation was presented to the courts in september also russia says it's banned from all major sporting events over alleged been cut in

half to 2 years but the country's clean athletes still say that they are being unfairly targeted. 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 on draw flag and with 19 cases creeping to 43000000 mark in russia experts say the infections are reaching a plateau as the country ready for weeks 3 of its mass vaccination programs. getting even just on 7 in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the head of wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer in the sergeant says it could put the brakes on his extradition to the united states where the audio seems to prove that the whistleblower in fact tried to warn the u.s. state department about

a mass breach of classified information back in 2011 and appears to be in stark contrast to washington's claims that a songe wanted to endanger lives this is what kristinn hrafnsson told us in an exclusive interview. this evidence that you heard and i can confirm that this is authentic is not new to the courts in the u.k. and transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it suits basically throws the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department in their indictment which they are trying to use now to get a much of a lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk. while 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 sonship politicians and activists also i want donald trump to pardon him before he leaves office in january such detail as

more. 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 but sarge 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 that the whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t released tape has revealed a song just 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. i think over time. because. it came. right kate. spread around. to. the degree that. we probably going to. become public. some possibility. so no right can see dropping a political bombshell standing back and watching it burn as we've been told who is

easy is described. traitor a treasonist i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a done great discredit to this nation should be assassinated he 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 case for. having. our viewer dissidents more and more. we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to explain. the holdback it's stored 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 he'll 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 you don't know trump 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 unfair 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 any possible harm to this i have no idea why this was not followed through and they took up the offer of the help the julian was was carefully and i'm considerably. worried in altering to say the problem the state department never came back to julian for more information and seem to have not done anything based on this warning when we spoke to journalists activists and dorsai formative promise 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 seize always claim 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 a lot of people have commented in reply i had no idea they thought the julian injured america. reckless the evil lies john me even if at all 3 years. in i guess hearing julian speaking his own voice and hearing him. basically pleading with the state department to help him help them help people really changed a lot of people i think very pleased. hope and 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 extradition of doing this and jim pederson for. to be prosecuted for espionage for the crime of being a journalist the people who want that's exactly the same people who who were testing before us russia gate narrative. so donald trump has a powerful motive to. to go against those people and to and to come to their influence so i'm not without hope that donald trump who will issue a public julian was not the 1st person to release this and. and it was already on dozens of websites. twitter obviously the guardian party that asked the files and then they ended up only prosecuting julian julian is the only one.

he's the only one he's currently sitting in. while dozens of other people published it or eat it what sense does it make it's you allow the 1st 99 people free and hunnish 100 birds 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. certainly had the ability to to pardon him or drop the charges really it's dropping the charges because he hasn't 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 who was was harmed by the leaks and in the end of the earth that's quite an important thing to stake 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 does excluded by the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty and i think it will be knocked down by a higher court in the u.k. the worse and the united states i think in a very obvious attack on the 1st amendment implied in using the espionage act 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. andersen's amounting to daughter and it's the poster. which is a pro. sports top courses cut russia's ban from all major sporting events

for dating offenses from 4 years to 2 and says that the country's athletes will only be able to compete as neutrals however russians the chiefs still believe that the punishment is too harsh. we do not welcome the decision to partially satisfy world then to doping agency's claim and deprive russia 900 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 stumbled. it's

an ambiguous story in general this decision was predictable but this is not for us to decide sports politics is such that if you have inside information about what is happening at the top 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 no russian flag or anthem at international sporting events until the end of 2020 that includes the next summer and winter olympics and also the football world cup that is not against dave explains there could still be twists and turns to come. in what may be described as a remarkably anticlimactic conclusion the court of arbitration for sport refrained from an outright bad then watered down what was recommended participant after years of scandal and accusations bickering and petty insults the duping savior 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 be 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 someone did to taint every russian athlete is a potential cheat is gone the was nice because of the most important result of our collaborative effort is the fact that the court of arbitration for sport has been extended its support for a world on to duping agency in applying measures of collective 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 to rule it 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 this sordid russian stay. sponsored doping affair now spanning close to a decade there is no consolation in this week a 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

which of 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 a wider if it didn't play along it didn't and it made clear that american athletes risk being barred from the olympics if washington stops paying its jews at the end of the day this final ruling pleased know what top of that these are these duff times for wada with calls and cries demanding the agency reform or else but unless something changes the decision is final and then and a fresh start. ok well let's turn to covert 99 the latest situation here in russia because this friday 28000 new cases were confirmed and it takes the total

number of infections in the country to almost 3000000 in the meantime the road out of this burning the vaccine is almost into week 3 and from monday journalists and transport workers in the capital will be among the next in line to receive it with more details is from cost of. number of cases here to russian capsule remains very high however a group of scientists from the st petersburg state university and nouns that the pandemic already began in the russian capital this week now they supported the claim with their own mathematical model created to predict the spread of a covert 19 the situation in st petersburg remains alarmingly tense hording to local health officials only 4 percent of hospital beds that were earmarked for cold with 1000 patients remain vacant and that means that the hospitals are almost filled to capacity now the situation is a certain a different throughout the country president putin's spokesperson trip this call

for us said earlier that at the moment there are no plans for a complete lockdown in russia while the head of state himself he admits to country having some issues with pandemic but everything is under control the symbolism. you go to work because there was no 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 also announced earlier that in addition to sputnik the

end vaca rhona other vaccines are now in development meanwhile russia is now in 2 weeks where people can get inoculated against the corona virus and speaking about moscow in particular for more than 15000 people were vaccinated at one of 70 dedicated places in the russian capital mayor of the city sergei sedan and said that a 1000000 more citizens may get their codes healed starting on monday december 21st now inoculation is currently limited to people in the 18 to 60 age group and those people who are older will also get their vaccine however that will happen a little bit later. meanwhile patients northern ireland are being treated in the back of ambulances in hospital car parks because of a chronic lack of capacity is the cases they're keys of ambulances formed outside

clinics throughout the country and with no beds free at hospitals in county antrim 17 lined up and of side it's emergency department and one patient reportedly stayed there overnight we spoke with medic john i can't john i can't. i've been a doctor for over 35 years and the scenes of ambulance and screwed up outside accident mergence is apartments is unprecedented but. it is very important that we get our section rates under control and we need clear concise advice to our population and we need clear action by our executive reaches those numbers we do know that locked doors 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

a vaccination rolled out to our population. well the situation has been called critical with more than 59000 confirmed cases and 1100 deaths of niland will go into a 6 week lockdown after christmas day residents are being urged to leave their homes only for essential reasons the deputy 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 need an urgent intervention i think this is the right decision by the executive albeit i accept it will be challenging for many many people unfortunately last time seems to be the only true look we have to reduce numbers of people getting as far as hospital patients and that's it's a very difficult decision for our part for our politicians to make they have to balance the risks of. increasing numbers going into hospital

into a sea chance 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. now tech giants are facing away from lawsuits at the moment with google the latest in the firing line his been slapped with a 2nd anti monopoly case in the space of 2 days this time from state attorney general. i'm filing a lawsuit against google with 37 a torn new generals to end its legal monopoly in serious 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 with the lawsuit alleges that google showing favoritism in results downgrading competing websites the company's also accused of not giving users any choice but to use its products own

devices google insists actions or its actions benefit consumers but cases against the company are still mounting one quarter more google staring down the battle of a lawsuit filed on wednesday by a federal court in texas that'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 unjustified actual or 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 end to 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 several times repeated 3 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 on course there will be tech giants are also taking aim at each other facebook has paid for her disappearance a major newspapers attacking apple for planning to use is opt out of tracking on its i phone something that has been a major source of income for facebook for whose book is speaking out for small businesses those new iowa's 14 policy will have a home full impact to many small businesses that are struggling to stay afloat when 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 in iowa last 14 will just require that they ask for your permission 1st when we got the visa if any poor studies expert michael jackson well what and he does say that facebook is hardly a shiny sample when it comes to good practice facebook has been agreed just violator of privacy of course people sign effectively sign away their privacy rights when they create an account but they have also really collaborated with the governments especially in the us they're using the small business. as a stalking horse they're hiding behind it is 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 hot off 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. you're watching international thanks for your company this evening just coming up to half past 7 they were moscow will be back again at the top of the .

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