join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics school. i'm show business i'll see you then. and r.t. exclusive wiki leaks confirms the authenticity of the recording that could spin the narrative on julian or songe shows the whistleblower did try to prevent not facilitate the release of thousands of sensitive u.s. cables came the courts knew about the take when deciding on his extradition to america. due to the point true of the. transcript and through this conversation was presented to reported september. also with covert 900 cases creeping closer to 3000000 in russia experts say the

inspections are reaching a plant so as the country readies for week 3 of its mass vaccination program. found a top british lawmaker faces a backlash after saying you know should be ashamed of a quick political stunt as the charity organization aims to put food on the table of learning for vulnerable children this christmas. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me nikki airing. of 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 they were dio's 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 just wanted to endanger lives 5 this is what kristinn hrafnsson told as 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. a transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it supposedly throws the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department if they're indictment which they are try to use now to get a much wider lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk. all 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 dishonest politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before he leaves office in january saskia taylor 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 is closer to being the high tech terrorist 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 just 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. having teletypes. because. right kate. spread around. to. the degree that. we probably going to have to. 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 a shot of a piece done a 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 were dissidents more north. korea have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to train. the holdback it's cool to the wiki leaks at its 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 trade 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 its 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 to follow through and it took up the offer. to help the julian was was carefully and i'm considerably. worried in offering 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 sound 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 2 children it's 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 the evil lies john the heat of battle for years. and i guess hearing julian speaking in its own voice and hearing him like basically pleading the how he could possibly hear that and continue this political persecution remember of course that the. people are very pressing for the extradition of julian assange jim pearson 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 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 information it was already on dozens of websites being leaked twitter obviously the guardian carting that password to get the files and then they ended up only prosecuting julian julian is the only one that's that. he's the only one he's currently sitting with. while dozens of other people published it or eat it what sense does it meet to allow the 1st 99 people in the 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 was harmed by the leaks and in the end the earned that's quite an important thing to state 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. extradition treaty i think 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 b.s.p. an 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 it 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 that it's the process. which is a problem for. the latest now on the coded 1902 ation here in russia this friday 28000 new cases. have been confirmed it takes the total number of infections in the country to almost $3000000.00 in the meantime the rollout of the sputnik v.a. vaccine is almost into week 3 from monday journalists found transport workers in the capital will be among the next in line to receive it has room on cost of f.

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 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 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 certainly different throughout the country president putin's spokesperson trip this call for 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 over this. 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 so 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 call the chilled 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. one of the most devastating effects of a covert 19 pandemic has been people falling below the poverty line in the u.k. the house of commons leader is facing a backlash over comments made about a unicef program to feed poor families and said jacob riis marks said the u.n. agency which usually provides disaster relief should be ashamed of what he calls a political stunt but charity is working to make sure children have food on the

table this christmas during the hard hitting coronavirus pandemic. unicef should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest the most deprived countries in the world where people are starving where they're from and whether civil wars and they make political points of this car i'm giving all 325000 pounds to one council it is a political stunt of the lowest order you know surf recently launched a wide ranging program aimed at tackling food insecurity it will be granting over $700000.00 pounds to community groups all over the u.k. the organization is also helping feed children in an underprivileged borough of london giving out food parcels and assuring $25000.00 break 1st star distributed to schools there but campaign has put a spotlight on food poverty in the u.k. considered one of the wealthiest countries in the world according to unicef

children in 20 percent of all u.k. households could be going hungry and an estimated 2400000 children live in so-called food insecure homes free school meals programs have seen huge numbers of families sign up unicef has defended his decision to provide humanitarian help to children in the u.k. for the 1st time ever. unicef u.k. is responding to the some precedented crisis and building on our 25 years experience of working on children's rights in the u.k. with a one off domestic response launched norquist to provide support to vulnerable children and families around the country during this crisis period earlier i spoke with the founder of the largest independent food bank in the u.k. who says the government's handling of the poverty crisis has been unacceptable. i think the reality is the government's own figures show that in britain 4.5 children get 1000000 children get free school meals and before the pandemic the government's

own figures confirmed 12000000 people in britain a word in poverty i think what unicef of dawn has of course given some money to people in britain and britain is one of the great generous countries in the world for giving money so it's only just right that when people are in crisis that unicef gives us some cash by the scandal is we have a government that keeps pussy footing around the real crisis in britain i'm not speak 15000 people 15000000 people in the 6 richest economy on the planet going hungry and that's not acceptable we should be deleting a global campaign to end poverty not pussyfooting around it we're now feeding so many people we can hardly cope it's not something that we can just depend anymore on our government our government around the world are all tied up with the pandemic trying to get people safe and stop people dying letting people go hungry is not a priority and so we have people that we as communities need to take back power and

politicize it in a way but we can eradicate the problems. so had to kind of ground their very official amends to ever see equality in great britain has found a south accused of discrimination on the progress kristie a story in plenty more fully you after this break. is there such a thing as public opinion anymore after all after 2 election cycles in a row david has been largely imperfect is there's more than just one public and are there good reasons not to trust the polls. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is right. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us on the debt. or a maid in the shallows. welcome back the u.k.'s minister for women and equality has been accused of discrimination and shunning her responsibilities those allegations were fired at least trust after

her announcement on our policy over the whole set to focus more on social class on to character to make the whole society more equal we need the ecology debates to be led by thoughts not by fashion. the new approach will apparently sent on principles of fairness and dignity that includes listening to more represented voices in society who may be in paddle discriminated against the british prime minister also stressed more attention is needed on geographic inequality but to trust his speech has caused outrage in westminster and beyond. truss's attempt to separate classroom race is divisive garbage we need to create a fairer society for everyone but this means recognizing that the barriers faced by black asian and other minority ethnic people are facts not fashion black lives matter. the opposition in britain also slammed liz transfer her role as international trade secretary and wish the labor party and activists called out

a total lack of equality trust has appointed hundreds of trade advisors to new roles government data highlighted that almost all white males a quarter of her appointments were women with just 12 from asian descent and one black person cabinet office will suggest around 14 percent of government staff should be from ethnic minorities by 2022 and half of all in all new employees female we spoke to john and go on to talk radio host and columnist who say is equality is all about people in general not particular minorities well i think she's got a good idea because she's focusing on class and she's trying to say look it can't all be about identity politics which has actually now infested the political culture in our country so it's about class it's about equality it's about everybody have an equal chance we need to do the data works on that basis and promote

a more equal society without enough of quotas the best person whether that's a woman a man a straight person a trans person whatever should get the job we have to go back to basics we have to say it's equality for all. sports top court has cut russia's ban from all major sporting events for doping offenses from 4 years to 2 and says that the countries are fleets will only be able to compete as neutrals however russia is a live picture of still believe that the punishment is too harsh. this is we do not welcome the decision to partially satisfy world anti-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 sada 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 normal it is necessary to punish but cities are not sent to prison for the crimes of a few here 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 we would hardly be allowed to play under our flag but i am glad that there was no complete dismissal of the ban means no russian flag or anthem as international sporting events until the end of 2022 and that includes the next summer and winter olympics on football cup but as more and ghastly 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 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 paint every russian athlete as

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 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 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 this sordid 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 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 blocked 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 final and then and a fresh start. this friday marks international my going stay and thousands of undocumented asylum seekers have filled the streets of some 50 cities across france this is the scene in paris overnight as all the demonstration have so far refused to back down on disperse with kovac 19 restrictions in place in the capital this comes just weeks after police dismantled a makeshift camp in a city something which triggered a public outcry at the time. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international with back in 30 minutes with the latest. on. the industry prefers to spend millions of euros.

to delay regulations would be sniffy is all about making money making profits it's about big corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of crimean diseases that are in every family it is not due to new viruses or new microbes that's not true so it is due to environment let's just say that not going to say either the momento disappear that this sort of muscles are really be a sticky liquid only coming to see them to be sad in the list that. the plague. if the so food industry is successful it will create more jobs it will create more value added it will create more growth so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interest something into st now except that we have regulation we want regulation i was industry belief we don't behave any aspirin or 2 that's fine.

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