my. god thank. god for. an r.c. exclusive wiki leaks confirms the authenticity of the recording that could spin the narrative on julian assange as it shows the whistleblower did try to prevent or not facilitate the release of thousands of sensitive u.s. cables his claims the courts knew about the tape when deciding on his extradition to america. due. to the. transcript of this conversation was presented to the portraits of temper. much as these it's been from all major sporting events over alleged doping cut in

half to 2 years of the country's cleanup fleet still say they're 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 under our flag. and with covert 19 cases creeping towards 3000000 in russia experts say the infections are reaching up clouds home as the country is ready for weeks 3 of its must vaccination for a. very welcome you're watching r.t. international with me. the head of wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for julian assange and says it could put the brakes on his extradition to the united states the audiophile seems to prove the whistle blow 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 our sons wanted to endanger lives this is what kristen french sent told us in an exclusive interview this is evidence that you heard and i can control him but this is all since it is not new to the courts in the u.k. transcript or through this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it suits basically the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department it is their indictment and they are try to use them to get a much lower level 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 a son's politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before he leaves

office in january saskia tale of reports. 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 is 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 the whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t released tape has revealed a song to tempted to warn the u.s.

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. you. spread it around. to. the degree that. we believe we've. become public. to 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 described. 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 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 in washington the very same who now want to send him down so life. having. people out here is that it's more your problem but we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying. to hold back its store 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 calls 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 donald trump can save julian and encourage brave activists worldwide 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 bad set to replace him in the white house this could be the last chance for america

to part an unfit give a man who wanted to save washington from its shame time is of the essence for a son and to avoid a life in jail the assistance was offered to to to stop this or mitigate any and impossible harm to this i have no idea why this was not to follow through and to call for. help the julian was was crucially 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 his warning we spoke to journalists activists and 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 a lot of people have commented in reply had no idea they thought the julian injured america. is reckless even why john the even if at all 3 years. in i guess hearing julian speaking as a young boy and hearing him like 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 i'm just passing forward. 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 now should get 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 with. the 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 easily 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. well dozens of other people published it or what sense does it make to allow the 1st 99 people to free and 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 obama 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 was was harmed by the leaks and in the end of the earth that's quite an important thing to say the

chances of a political process in the end go 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. introducing treaty 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 impiety 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 a maximum security jail alongside terrorists. andersen's amounting to torture but it's the poster. who does the pro. sports top court has cut russia's ban from all major sporting events for doping offenses from 4 to 4

years to tell you and says that the countries are fleas will only be able to compete as neutrals however russia's a limb pick chief still believe that the punishment is too harsh this is we do not welcome the decision to partially satisfy world then to doping agencies claim and deprive russian $1000.00 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 and 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 normal 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 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. of the ban it means no russian flag or anthem at international sporting events until the end of 2022 and that includes the next summer and winter olympics and football world cup but as mark out of explains that still could 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 ban and watered down waters 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's its flag a 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 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 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 wada if it didn't play along it didn't and it made clear that american athletes risk being bugged from the olympics if washington stops paying its jews at the end of the day this final ruling pleased no one of 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 fadel and then and the fresh start. latest now on the covert 19 situation here in russia this friday 28000 new cases

have been confirmed to take the total number of infections in the country to almost 3000000 in the meantime the rollout after sputnik the vaccine is almost into week 3 and from monday to journalists than chance but workers in the capital will be among the next in line to receive it has remand kozyrev with the details. 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 peaked in the russian capital this week now they supported the claim with their own mathematical model created to predict the spread of a cold with 19 the situation in st petersburg remains alarmingly tense cording 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 a pandemic but everything is under control this have a listen. 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 stop 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 said bannon 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. patients in northern ireland are being treated in the back of ambulances in hospital carpark because of a chronic lack of capacity as covert cases search queues of ambulances formed

outside clinics throughout the country and with no beds free at a hospital in county antrim 17 lined up outside its emergency department one patient reportedly stayed there overnight we spoke with medic john kelly. i've been a doctor for over 35 years the sins of ambulance and screwed up actually most. departments is on president. it is very important that we get our section rates are controlled 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 up in dollars reduce them i know would be difficult. 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. the situation has been called to

critical with more than 59000 confirmed cases and 1100 deaths northern ireland 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 ministers said there was little choice. but to be disappointing 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 admissions and that's it's a very difficult decision for our party for our politicians to make they have the balance of the risks of. increasing numbers going into hospital

into a ceiling and dance 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 earlier. tech giants are facing a wave of lawsuits with google the latest in the firing line is being slapped with a 2nd anti-monopoly case in 2 days at this time from the state attorney general's. 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 data and information but also it alleges that google showed favoritism in search results downgrading competing websites the company's also accused of not giving users any choice but to use its products own devices

google insists its benefits can see him as the cases against the company are mounting one 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 will potential rivals did 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 n.t. 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 7 times repeated lee 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 well take giant thoughts are taking aim at each other facebook has paid for advertisements in major newspapers attacking apple for planning to let users of tons of tracking on its i phones and that has been a major source of income for facebook. whose book is speaking out for small businesses bulls new iowa's 14 policy will have a home full impact to 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 a story the company's days the move which comes into force next year will protect users that 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 look at the fees they have liberal studies that expose michael rexin well as he says facebook is hardly a shining example 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 ads and it 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 extort extort money out of facebook for getting rid of this particular feature but if they don't then it's very admirable. thanks for joining us here on aussie international with back at the top of the hour with the latest. is there such a thing as public opinion anymore after all after 2 election cycles in

a row data has been largely imperfect because there is more than just one public and are there good reasons not to trust the polls. oh. oh. russian television is on the demonstrators right now the propaganda machine.

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